A vagabond courtier; from the memoirs and letters of Baron Charles Louis von Pöllnitz . passe and faro, and other games of chance. There werereceptions three times a week, either in the Electresssapartments, when ladies appeared in court dress, or inthe great Orangery, when they could wear cloaks; andat the card-tables no rank was observed. Every daythere were French plays, balls, and gambling. Threedays a week a concert, all the company masked. Afterthe concert, dancing and cards. These public Assemblies, where the Elector and allthe Court are present, are a great source of revenueto the vale
A vagabond courtier; from the memoirs and letters of Baron Charles Louis von Pöllnitz . passe and faro, and other games of chance. There werereceptions three times a week, either in the Electresssapartments, when ladies appeared in court dress, or inthe great Orangery, when they could wear cloaks; andat the card-tables no rank was observed. Every daythere were French plays, balls, and gambling. Threedays a week a concert, all the company masked. Afterthe concert, dancing and cards. These public Assemblies, where the Elector and allthe Court are present, are a great source of revenueto the valets de chambre of the Elector, for, besides theentrance fees, they have also the card-money, and areinterested in nearly all the banks to such an extent thatthese servants have nearly all the money of the nobility,with which they are not averse to making a show. During Pollnitzs stay he saw one of the Electorsdaughters take the veil, a ceremony of much pomp,attended by all the Court. Besides these pleasures we have also quieter ones;I mean those which are to be found in good THE VAGEANT 209 These exist here more than in other German towns, butchiefly among foreigners in the Electors service ratherthan among Bavarians. The latter are generally proud;it is true that they are so more because they think itgood style than because they are so naturally. Theybecome more amiable when shown that one is notimpressed by their grand airs. Bavaria was one of the most prosperous Statesof the Empire, and, next to the King of France, theElector possessed the greatest number of the most beau-tiful country houses—Schleissheim, Taco, Furstenriet,Starnberg, and Nymphenburg. To the latter Pollnitzfollowed the Court when the fine weather came on, an enchanted spot, which Maximilian had greatlyenlarged, adding stables and superb gardens and apavilion with baths. After the gardens at Versailles,there are none so fine as Nymphenburg. One of the amusements of the Court when there wasdriving
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