Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 14, 2025
Her enemies oven affirmed that in private she was wont to call the Trianon her "little Vienna, " as if the garden, which she was laying out with a taste that long made it the admiration of all the visitors to Versailles, were dear to her, not as affording a healthful and becoming occupation, nor for the sale of the giver, but only because it recalled to her memory the gardens of Schönbrunn, to which, as their malice suggested, she never ceased to look back with unpatriotic regret.
Haugwitz began his conference with the victor at Schönbrunn on December 13th, by offering Frederick William's congratulations on his triumph at Austerlitz, to which the Emperor replied by a sarcastic query whether, if the result of that battle had been different, he would have spoken at all about the friendship of his master.
But the peace of Schönbrunn marked the initiation of a policy which dissolved the peace of Tilsit. There could now no longer be any serious question of marriage between members of the two courts.
Schonbrunn having failed them, McLean and, Peter went back to the city in the street-car, neither one saying much. Even McLean's elasticity was deserting him. His eyes, from much peering into crowds, had taken on a strained, concentrated look. Peter was shabbier than ever beside the other man's ultrafashionable dress. He sat, bent forward, his long arms dangling between his knees, his head down.
They were, in fact, striving to steer halfway between Napoleon and George III. and gain Hanover. Verily, here was a belief in half measures passing that of women. The envoy despatched to assure Napoleon's assent to these new conditions was the very man who had quailed before the Emperor at Schönbrunn.
She is tried before the Revolutionary Tribunal. She is condemned. Her last Letter to the Princess Elizabeth. Her Death and Character. Importance of Marie Antoinette in the Revolution. Value of her Correspondence as a Means of estimating her Character. Her Birth, November 2d, 1755. Epigram of Metastasio. Habits of the Imperial Family. Schönbrunn. Death of the Emperor.
Russia allies with Prussia; Grand Duke of, visits the French court; Catherine Empress of. Sabran, Abbé de. Sahib, Tippoo, Sultan of Mysore. Salis, M. de. Sans-culottes. Santerre, M., and the attack on the Bastille; and the Paris insurrection; and the insurgents. Sartines, M. de. Savonières, Marquis de. Scarcity of food in Paris in September, 1789. Schönbrunn, retreat at.
Francis Joseph, Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, died at Schonbrunn Castle, near Vienna, November 21, at the age of 86.
Birds do wrong to change their nests." Thereupon, he began to describe and warmly extol the Prater and its fine walks, Schonbrunn, its botanical gardens and the Gloriette, the church of St.
The treaty of Schönbrunn was a flagrant violation of the agreement made between Napoleon and Alexander at Erfurt, inasmuch as it materially enlarged the grand duchy of Warsaw and thus menaced Russia with the reconstruction of Poland. "Clearly," said Rumianzoff to Caulaincourt, "you want to be rid of the Russian alliance, and to substitute for it that with the grand duchy."
Word Of The Day
Others Looking