In the course of their marriage, sixteen children were born to Maria Theresa and Francis Stephan: eleven daughters and five sons. Two daughters died in early childhood, and another immediately after her birth, thus only thirteen were alive by spring 1757. Here is the full list of all the siblings with their familiar nicknames in […]
In the first week of April 1757, Marianne fell seriously ill with symptoms commonly attributed to pneumonia by her biographers. However, after the agony, her spine became to curve, a symptom which hardly fits the picture of such disease. Tuberculosis, another diagnosis preferred by biographers, although it may deform the bones, did not sound fully […]
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