Read part one here. By May 1834, Ludovika’s worried mother wrote to her daughter Amelie that Ludovika had become apathetic. One month earlier, she had given birth to her first daughter – named Helene. She had been one of a pair of twins, but Ludovika had miscarried the other twin earlier. Her husband had been [read more]
Sophie Charlotte in Bavaria was born on 22 February 1847 at 5.20 in the morning as the daughter of Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria and Princess Ludovika of Bavaria. She would be one of eight (surviving) siblings, and her sisters included Empress Elisabeth of Austria, Helene, Marie Sophie and Mathilde Ludovika. She was their penultimate [read more]
On 4 May 1897, a fire tore through the Bazar de la Charité, held in a large wooden shed, in Paris. The bazaar was built like a medieval fantasy street and one of its attractions, which used equipment with a system of ether and oxygen, rather than electricity, caught fire. Unfortunately, exits were not adequately [read more]
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