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lobelia321Fandom: Regency in Germany, to wit: Franzosenzeit
Characters: Gottlieb and other origs
Extracts from: A literary lady's travel guide (cross-over character from the Travelogue fandom)
No canonical or fanonical characters were harmed in the making of this snippet.
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In the style of 19th-C. novels and travel guides. (based particularly on Helmina von Chezy's Gemälde von Heidelberg, Mannheim, Schwetzingen, dem Odenwalde und dem Neckarthale (1816)
From the pen of Helena von Neckarstein, Views and Pictures of Estimable Towns and Lands betwixt the Neckar and the Rhine (1809):
Blessed with all the delights of a rich and bountiful nature, Lohenau's situation calls out to the traveller and pierces his heart with sweet yearning. On a fine day, one can be quite alone on its shady paths, along its meandering river walks and under its majestic oaks, beeches and firs, such is the richness of the surroundings. Wherever one turns, there is beauty and grace, well-being and abundance -- in the airs and scents, in the glory of flowering meadows, in the winding ivy that clothes walls and ruins with youth.
History marks the town as the long-time residence of princes. No visit could be more rewarding than that to the residential Schloss, located on the southern slope of the river valley. Its aspect is beyond pleasing. It is no forbidding fortress, no fanciful ruin, but emanates simple elegance and is at the same time cozy and of a certain whimsy. Its foundations go back to the time of bards and maidens when castles had moats, and the waters surrounding the main building, spanned by an ancient bridge, offer repose and a connection to the forefathers. The palais itself has been much modernised, with the chapel, the library and the orangery serving as supreme examples of the style Rocaille while the main façade has been redone in that most fashionable style, Palladian Classicism.
Recent world events have had a varied impact on the principality. The grand army of the French general crossed the Rhine in the year Six and transformed administration and society. No more the abbeys and monasteries of yore, no more that proud aristocratic rule. Gone are the old wigs and queues, and the battle cry of 'liberty, equality, fraternity' is to be heard partout. Some may rail against the tariffs and taxes imposed, and the necessity of billeting a great quantity of military personnel for months at a stretch has taken its toll. To be sure, the benefits of improved roads, unified currencies and ease of trade cannot be gainsaid.
Nevertheless, the joyful spirit of a simpler age with its noble princesses and princes, its electors and margraves, lives on in the residence of the Lohenau dynasty whose benign condescension casts its generous beneficence and munificent influence over the entire region.
The traveller arriving at the town gates is advised to overnight at the inn 'Zum Goldenen Reh', located at the--
"Bollocks!" Gottlieb Maria Tegtmeier, former archivist to the Royal Library in Munich and newly appointed to be a commissaire to the mairie of the Département Rhin-et-Lôhe, snapped shut the guidebook and startled his fellow passengers on the stage coach from Karlsruhe to Lohenau. "What utter tripe. Generous beneficence indeed. Leeches, the lot of them."
"I beg your pardon?" said the man opposite, a fresh-faced person with his hand on his wife's arm. They were newly-weds. Gottlieb had heard all about their nuptials, their prospects, their plans, their bliss and a host of other irrelevant and irksome details during the last several hours on the road.
"Princes and nobles! Guillotine the lot of them!"
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Characters: Gottlieb and other origs
Extracts from: A literary lady's travel guide (cross-over character from the Travelogue fandom)
No canonical or fanonical characters were harmed in the making of this snippet.
.
In the style of 19th-C. novels and travel guides. (based particularly on Helmina von Chezy's Gemälde von Heidelberg, Mannheim, Schwetzingen, dem Odenwalde und dem Neckarthale (1816)
From the pen of Helena von Neckarstein, Views and Pictures of Estimable Towns and Lands betwixt the Neckar and the Rhine (1809):
Blessed with all the delights of a rich and bountiful nature, Lohenau's situation calls out to the traveller and pierces his heart with sweet yearning. On a fine day, one can be quite alone on its shady paths, along its meandering river walks and under its majestic oaks, beeches and firs, such is the richness of the surroundings. Wherever one turns, there is beauty and grace, well-being and abundance -- in the airs and scents, in the glory of flowering meadows, in the winding ivy that clothes walls and ruins with youth.
History marks the town as the long-time residence of princes. No visit could be more rewarding than that to the residential Schloss, located on the southern slope of the river valley. Its aspect is beyond pleasing. It is no forbidding fortress, no fanciful ruin, but emanates simple elegance and is at the same time cozy and of a certain whimsy. Its foundations go back to the time of bards and maidens when castles had moats, and the waters surrounding the main building, spanned by an ancient bridge, offer repose and a connection to the forefathers. The palais itself has been much modernised, with the chapel, the library and the orangery serving as supreme examples of the style Rocaille while the main façade has been redone in that most fashionable style, Palladian Classicism.
Recent world events have had a varied impact on the principality. The grand army of the French general crossed the Rhine in the year Six and transformed administration and society. No more the abbeys and monasteries of yore, no more that proud aristocratic rule. Gone are the old wigs and queues, and the battle cry of 'liberty, equality, fraternity' is to be heard partout. Some may rail against the tariffs and taxes imposed, and the necessity of billeting a great quantity of military personnel for months at a stretch has taken its toll. To be sure, the benefits of improved roads, unified currencies and ease of trade cannot be gainsaid.
Nevertheless, the joyful spirit of a simpler age with its noble princesses and princes, its electors and margraves, lives on in the residence of the Lohenau dynasty whose benign condescension casts its generous beneficence and munificent influence over the entire region.
The traveller arriving at the town gates is advised to overnight at the inn 'Zum Goldenen Reh', located at the--
"Bollocks!" Gottlieb Maria Tegtmeier, former archivist to the Royal Library in Munich and newly appointed to be a commissaire to the mairie of the Département Rhin-et-Lôhe, snapped shut the guidebook and startled his fellow passengers on the stage coach from Karlsruhe to Lohenau. "What utter tripe. Generous beneficence indeed. Leeches, the lot of them."
"I beg your pardon?" said the man opposite, a fresh-faced person with his hand on his wife's arm. They were newly-weds. Gottlieb had heard all about their nuptials, their prospects, their plans, their bliss and a host of other irrelevant and irksome details during the last several hours on the road.
"Princes and nobles! Guillotine the lot of them!"
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