Le Grand Trianon, what a charming place!


Recently, standing in front of it, I was amused that the explanations in German call this building a "Lustschloss" ("Schloss" meaning
"palace"). It has been built in 1687, in the park of the Château de Versailles, by Louis XIV for his mistress, M-me de Maintenon;
so there is no need for me to explain the first part of the German term.
While here, in 1919, Hungary - a one thousand years old European Christian country - was torn savagely apart, like a loaf of bread,
two thirds of its territory and population being thrown to its greedy neighbors, in Paris the frivolous mood continued:
"At the beginning of March the Rumanian delegation received a reinforcement when Queen Marie, [...] arrived on the royal train.
[...] she was lovely, vivacious and adulterous. Her new subjects found this endearing. Her lovers included..."*
Margaret MacMillan doesn't mention the large group of young ladies Queen Marie has brought with her from Bucharest
to this Peace Conference held by male politicians, and I do not want to elaborate on it.
There is a word in Triebswetter for what was going on here, but we do not want to hear it either, do we?
Anyway, this is just one aspect of how my folk's way to perdition has been prepared - and most history books choose to ignore it.
But it has been done with style.


* from p.133 of: Margaret Macmillan, Paris 1919, Six Months That Changed the World, Random House Trade Paperbacks , 2001.


P.S.: This page could belong to a Manual for Aliens, who must consider the Earth a very beautiful but also very strange place.


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