woman-hunt

Updated: June 16, 2025

As soon as he is safely married to his heiress, he expresses his determination of looking his full age, so that people might say 'What a well-preserved old man! instead of 'Voila, le ci-devant jeune homme! Still, with all this care and thought, heiresses remained coy, or more probably their parents were 'difficult. The prince's highly-developed personal vanity was wounded by many a refusal, and so weary did he become of this woman-hunt, that in one letter to Lucie, dated March 5, 1827, he exclaims, 'Ah, my dearest, if you only had 150,000 thalers, I would marry you again to-morrow!

George Paston - Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century