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MARIA FELICIA

Countess Felsenburk, when in the height of her beauty he met her for the first time at the ball in her father’s magnificent palace.

Without a word he let her go.

When, only a few years later, Joseph II. had to recall the greater part of his reforms as he lay on his death-bed, misunderstood, his best efforts for the empire rewarded with ingratitude, did he think of Maria Felicia, the last mistress of Hlohov?