. A vagabond courtier; from the memoirs and letters of Baron Charles Louis von Pöllnitz. nd live on my ownpaws. An almshouse would be a great assistance tome. The Queen-mothers birthday has been celebratedwith great solemnity, though the King was not present,congestion of the blood having prevented his comingto Berlin. Of all the Potsdamers I was the only onethere. The opera Armida was presented in a mannerequal to that of the Margravines productions. Pollnitzcriticizes and describes it: An immense audience, theheat stifling ... a supper of both Queens at the Queen-Mothers, and then a big ball
. A vagabond courtier; from the memoirs and letters of Baron Charles Louis von Pöllnitz. nd live on my ownpaws. An almshouse would be a great assistance tome. The Queen-mothers birthday has been celebratedwith great solemnity, though the King was not present,congestion of the blood having prevented his comingto Berlin. Of all the Potsdamers I was the only onethere. The opera Armida was presented in a mannerequal to that of the Margravines productions. Pollnitzcriticizes and describes it: An immense audience, theheat stifling ... a supper of both Queens at the Queen-Mothers, and then a big ball. There were foreignvisitors to Berlin. One of the House of Aragon, the other they call theDuke of St. Elizabeth; the latter is the son of the latePrince Rakoczy (the Polish patriot). He left twosons, whose family name the Court of Vienna hastaken from them. The eldest was obliged to take thetitle of Duke of St. Charles, and the younger that ofSt. Elizabeth. The latter might really have beenallowed to retain his title. I must be much mistaken ifhe can ever become the head of a THE KINGS JESTER 615 Our heaux esprits are in demand in different de Maupertuis is dying in Berlin of Algarotti is paying court to Friiulcin von Dankel-mann, whom Your Royal Higlmess saw at Ems, andone cannot say that he shows a taste for newly ripe de Voltaire is isolated, so depressed in mind andbody as to be hardly recognizable. He was with metwo hours yesterday. Our conversation was almostdumb ; he did not speak from grief, and I, out of respectfor his genius. In one of the interludes of our talk hesaid to me that he was on the point of going to Italy,and asked me if it would be much out of his way to goto Bayreuth. A moment later and he begged me tomake over to him the house in which I live, with allits furniture, as he could see that he could not decideto tear himself away from his present situation, as hewas too much devoted to the King ever to leave him
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