In the autopsy report of Princess Schwarzenberg, only indirect information mediated severalfold by secondary sources has been available to me. Luckily, the basic knowledge that she suffered from an abdominal tumour “the size of a child’s head” is beyond doubt. This was very likely the main reason for her long illness and, ultimately, her death. […]
First published in Paris in 1752, Traité is the fruit of thorough scholarly research, worth reading even today. In Chapter XLV, the living-dead Henry Count of Salm, buried in the Abbey of Haute-Seille, caught my attention; I remembered the Habsburgs having been distantly connected with his family. Beginning with Christina of Salm (1575–1627), Marianne’s great-great-great-grandmother, […]
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