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...Rhine. The De Wendels have been among Europe's armorers for centuries. Their home is Lorraine, a land perennially contested by France and Germany. One of the early members of the family was Johann Georg von Wendel, a colonel in the armies of the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III (1608-57). His son Christian changed his name to De Wendel. The De Wendels always had enough Von Wendels on the other side of the Rhine to keep their properties in the family. Christian de Wendel's grandson, Ignace, forged arms for both sides during the French Revolution. Ignace...
...stuff called Chanson du Narcisse and scuttled off to the assignation . . . The door opened, and in came a man wearing a beard and yellow spectacles. As Kristina teetered in a state of pleasant giddiness, the man raised his hand, ripped off his beard and spectacles, and stood revealed-the Emperor Karl of Austria himself...
Countess Kristina, who is the heroine of the first half of the book, becomes Emperor Karl's secret agent in World War I; her scurryings around in Parisian underthings, waving secret documents, make Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd look like a timid traveler in an old suit of B.V.D.s. When Kristina collapses into the arms of Spain's Alfonso XIII, her sister, Countess Zia, takes over for the between-wars decades. When at last, after more than 700 pages, Hitler and the Russians start divvying up what's left of the Dukay world, many a reader...
Rudolph's father, Emperor Franz Joseph, had only two interests as Author Lonyay sees it: 1) to design new buttons for his army's uniforms; 2) to design new agreements he had no great intention of keeping ("I cannot get the All-highest gentleman out of the habit of telling lies," his comptroller complained...
...tremendous that in no time at all he has the wife, the secretary, the daughter, and the maid all madly in love with him. But with the daughter it's real, and she gives up her bourgeois notions about truth. The final curtain finds her fixing breakfast for her "emperor of China...