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 […]
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 […]
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, The Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, or 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 […]
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