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By now Clemens von Metternich has been constantly present in my life for quite a long period of time, so I am actively manifesting love for him and his incredible family, as most of his children and grandchildren lived extraordinary lives as well!
Same notion goes for Richard and Pauline, Metternich’s own son and granddaughter who married each other due to Clemens approval. They were actual sweethearts and true successors of his former fame (pretty scandalous, may I say so myself) which he earned serving as an Austrian ambassador in Paris. 🇦🇹🇫🇷
And here are some pictures of them together:
In the last photograph Pauline sits with their eldest daughter Sophie on her lap. ❤️
Princess de Metternich, whom I have just mentioned, was one of the most prominent of the women at the Court of the Second Empire. Her husband, Prince Richard de Metternich, was First Secretary to the Austrian Embassy, in all the glory of youth and social success an amiable companion, a graceful dancer, a delightful causeur de salon. Later on, he had come to Paris as Ambassador with this ugliest jo lie laide for wife the daughter of the renowned Johannesberg wine, Comtesse Pauline Sandor whom he married in June 1856. Young, clever, witty, ambitious, with a daring, reckless spirit and a sharp tongue, she carried all before her. She made the brilliancy of Metternich’s diplomatic career. A great favourite at the Tuileries, she held her influence with the Empress even after the downfall of the Empire.
Princess Metternich was very amusing and entertaining. Therasa’s songs and Rogolbosche’s kicks were equally familiar to her, and her burlesque imita- tions of both were so clever that they became a huge advertisement of the originals, sending people flocking in night disguise to the Mabille gardens and the Petit Moulin-Rouge. But with all her recklessness, her love of adventure and her knowledge of the world, she was herself a model of propriety, and her name was never coupled with any love intrigue. She was a woman of refined taste, a fervent partisan of Wagner long before his music became accept- able to the Parisians generally, and it is well known that it was she who prevailed upon Walewski to allow the performance of Tann- hauser at the Opera in 1861. She introduced Liszt to the Tuileries.
She was the first to recognize the genius of the English costumier Worth, who made most of the brilliant and original costumes in which she appeared, and caused admiring astonishment at the Court entertainments. Her love of private theatricals added to the pleasures of the time, and she fre- quently appeared in the tableaux, short comedies and charades that were performed in the long Gallery of Maps at Compiegne - My memoir: Murat,Murat, Caroline Laetitia.
