Secret Memoirs of the Court of Berlin (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Secret Memoirs of the Court of Berlin Piquant entertainment used to be found by our grand-sires and dames in "secret memoirs" and "Mysteries" of high life. London and Paris each maintained its school for scandal, with an organ department in which the merest snatch of table-tattle was worked up into a fine fantasia of delicious mischief. In those antediluvian days there was a great gulf fixed between People who were People, and the people who were not. "Middle" and "Upper-Middle" - class scientific culture had not yet extended much beyond the musical glasses and a pious craze to explore the polar region of the court circle. The conscious nether world revelled in envious awe as it got these glimpses of distant spheres and gloried as it found their denizens frail. It was the day of a Paul Pry press, before the advent of the instrument with telescopic range and microscopic penetration, which could not but slacken interest in one constellation by revealing so much of so many. There has been too pharisaical a view taken of the old-fashioned secret memoir. The gathering of facts known to the entourage of great personages, which throw even the fiercest glare upon those whose prominence challenges it, is not strictly a scandalous act though it may include scandals. The strong man bade his artist paint "warts and all." If society´s head is sufficiently important to be portrayed for posterity, as it assuredly is, better it should be a portrait than a picture. Court chronicles were historical counterfeits. The demi-godded folk whose diplomatic marriages were deftly contrived to keep the business in the family, were by these veracious records of personal observations shown to be really humans. Rummage collections of faded letters with fadeless memories completed the Garlands which Friendship placed on the brow of the Great. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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