. The Open court. CASTLE KOCHBERG, MANSION ON THE STEIN by Goethe. the regency until her son, the young Duke Karl August, becameof age, September 3, 1775. She proved not only very efficient inthe affairs of government but was also a good mother and did her GOETHE S RELATION TO WOMEN. 103 best to bestow upon ber son a broad and Hberal echicalion. Wbentbe Duke married Louise, tbc daui;bter of tbe Landgrave of Llesse-. Darmstadt, these three royal personages, tbe Duke, bis mother, andbis wife, formed an auspicious trinity in their love and patronage ofGerman literature. 104 THE OPEN


. The Open court. CASTLE KOCHBERG, MANSION ON THE STEIN by Goethe. the regency until her son, the young Duke Karl August, becameof age, September 3, 1775. She proved not only very efficient inthe affairs of government but was also a good mother and did her GOETHE S RELATION TO WOMEN. 103 best to bestow upon ber son a broad and Hberal echicalion. Wbentbe Duke married Louise, tbc daui;bter of tbe Landgrave of Llesse-. Darmstadt, these three royal personages, tbe Duke, bis mother, andbis wife, formed an auspicious trinity in their love and patronage ofGerman literature. 104 THE OPEN COURT. Even at an advanced age the Duchess preserved her beauty anddistinguished appearance, and when she retired from active partici-pation in the government, she concentrated her interest in belleslettres, art and everything that tends to the cultivation of the died at Weimar, April 10, 1807. The painter Kraus immortalized the circle of the Duchess


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