Memoirs of the Princess Palatine, Princess of Bohemia
Subtitle: Including Her Correspondence with the Great Men of Her Day, and Memoirs of the Court of Holland under the Princes of Orange
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
Published: November 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9781421261829
Subjects: Memoirs,Palatine,Princess,Bohemia,Correspondence,Memoirs,Court,Holland,Princes of Orange,Blaze de Bury,Marie Pauline Rose,baronness; Biography & Autobiography / Political; Biography & Autobiography / Royalty
First sentence: DURING the religious differences and wars of the seventeenth century, and commencement of the eighteenth, Holland held a somewhat analogous position to that occupied within the last few years by our own country; it was the refuge and asylum of every individual of whatsoever rank, whose opinions rendered a sojourn in his native land unsafe.