Word: countess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born. To Henri Robert, Count of Paris, and the Countess of Paris: a daughter. Princess Hélène (their third child); near Brussels, Belgium. Father of the Count of Paris is Jean, Due de Guise, Orleans pretender to the throne of France...
...Died. Countess Catherine Breshkovskaya, 90, "grandmother of the Russian revolution"; after long illness; in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Of rich, noble birth, she plotted revolution against the Tsar, lived and worked with Russian peasants, was exiled to Siberia in 1878. In 1917, Kerensky, who was at her death bed last week, ordered her back to Russia where she was received with tumultuous acclaim. When the Kerensky regime collapsed, she was again exiled from Russia...
Young Franz's first serious love affair was with Marie Catherine, Countess d'Agoult, a beauteous unmusical mother of three, whose elderly husband bored her. The year was 1833. She was 28, he, 22. They ran away to Geneva, spent eleven years of romantic vagabondage interrupted only by his concert tours. She bore him three illegitimate children of whom Cosima (named after Lake Como) was to achieve fame by deserting her devoted husband to marry his dearest friend, Richard Wagner...
Although Liszt was at work on some of his best compositions before 1847 most of his time was devoted to piano recitals. Everywhere but in England, which disapproved of Countess d'Agoult, he was an idol. Women wore his portrait on cameos, went wild over him, He was the first, the greatest of pianists. He was making approximately $60,000 a year, owned 60 waistcoats, 360 cravats...
...left Countess d'Agoult and met her successor, the cigar-smoking Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein. Although love affairs continued to play through his life like tarantellas, she remained his nominal mistress until his death. Only a last minute refusal from Rome to grant her a divorce prevented their marriage...