Word: vetschera
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...pine-topped hills and the bleak, oblong, white chateau held no interest for Herr Laumann. His eyes sought instead a low wooden cross which he believed marked the grave of Marie, Baroness Vetschera, the dark heroine of Mayerling. Herr Laumann, young, strewed the grave with roses, paused, laid a note upon the ground: "If possible bury me here beside the Baroness Vetschera...
...impressionable clerk ever died to honor a less worthy lady. The Baroness' grandfather was one Baltazzi, "a dirty Greek," who amassed millions. Her father was one Baron Vetschera, a doddering Austrian diplomat with just sense enough to sell his title high. She, launched by a clever mother, became the siren who ensnared the Archduke Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary, son of the Emperor Franz Josef...
...Archduchess (Princess Stéphanie of Belgium) reacted to her husband's infatuation for the Baroness Vetschera with such violence that she hurled, from time to time, numerous articles of bric-à-brac at him-a fact incontestably proved. He, vexed, indulged himself the more riotously, inhaled ether and took morphia when he found that champagne had no more effect upon him. At last the Archduchess persuaded the Emperor Franz Josef to command her husband to break with the Baroness Vetschera. Moody, the Archduke departed for Mayerling, driven by his favorite coachman, one Bratfisch ("Fried Fish...
...Baroness Vetschera followed. Before setting out she purchased not roses and a revolver, but a razor which she ordered carefully stropped...
...Emperor Franz Josef spent a sizable fortune in suppressing every sort of evidence and comment. All the servants at Mayerling were paid well to emigrate under assumed names. It is not even known with certainty where the Baroness Vetschera was buried...
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