Identifier: withinroyalpalac00font (find matches)
Title: Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ...
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Fontenoy, marquise de, pseud
Subjects: Courts and courtiers
Publisher: Philadelphia, Hubbard Pub. Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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elee, Kaesestangen mit Brotchen, Gefrorenes. Naclitisch. The Emperor, however, if he wished to remain consistent,should manifestly have omitted the Franzosischer Huhner-braten (French chicken roast), and would have shown morereal and well-placed patriotism had he tabooed French vintagesand served in their stead to his distinofuished Qfuests thegreat national beverage, namely, beer, lightened, if absolutelynecessary, by copious drafts of grape juice from the vineyardsof the oreat free Rhine reorion. The trouble is, however,that the young Monarch is very partial to choice brands, andthat, self-sacrifice not being much in his line, he prefers tooverlook this part of the affair. So fond is the Emperor of aglass of genuinely good and mellow wine that the Imperialcellars, which by the by are in the charge of an American, ofthe name of Tim Wiegand, are perhaps the best kept inEurope. They are built under the Imperial Palace at Berlin,Unter den Linden, and are in the form of the letter L, the
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The Old Kaiser. 342 WITHIN ROYAL PALACE?. short arm being directly under that part of the Palace front-ing on the new Vegas fountain, and where the Imperial familylives during the winter months. They cover a space of threehundred and fifty feet and have low ceilings, but are wellventilated, although without windows or other openings in thelong stretch of walls. Light is provided by gas jets hangingfrom the inner roof at intervals of ten feet. They contain an alarming quantity of casks and bottles, withwines from all countries and hemispheres, some of them ofincalculable value, and well worthy of being placed on thetables of the richest orourmet of the ao-e. There are mountainsof bottled Steinberger Cabinet, the original price of whichwas forty marks a bottle, and which could not be duplicatednowadays if the cellars of all the connoisseurs in Europewere ransacked. In a choice corner is a kind of cage, or rack, in which restseveral rows of dusty flagons labelled thus : Presented byH. M.

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