"Lothringen" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... honored with a state dinner at the Prussian Ambassador's, and the most distinguished people were eager to be presented to her. At the house of Talleyrand, having been introduced to the Duchess von Lothringen, that haughty dame said, "I would not desire that my daughter were other than you." It was almost unheard of that a German cantatrice without social antecedents should be sedulously courted by the most brilliant women of ...
— Great Singers, First Series - Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag • George T. Ferris |
