Chapter 2 – Marianne’s apartment

As a grown-up lady, Marianne has her own apartment of five rooms, located on the second floor of the Leopoldine wing of Hofburg Palace. In the narrative, I directed her windows towards the State Chancellery wing across the inner courtyard, although it may be historically incorrect. However, let us take a tour! The (first) antechamber […]

Chapter 2 – The ’lethal’ month of April

This chapter is one of those which contributes little to the plot but is nevertheless important to understand the network of ancestors and cognates, both living and deceased, that Marianne belonged to. April offered enough examples to illustrate her place in the chain of generations. Another similarly loaded month in the family calendar seems to […]

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