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Princess Pauline was an ardent patron of music and contemporary arts, and also became a leader of fashionable society. Whether in Paris or Vienna, she set the latest social trends. She taught French and Czech aristocrats to skate, and ladies to smoke cigars without fear of their reputations. She was
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of 1870/71. She played an important role in the social and cultural life of both Dresden and Paris, and, after 1871, Vienna. Pauline's regular travels between, and extended stays in, Paris and Vienna, permitted her to act as a cross-cultural transmitter of the many trends that interested her in
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to the Empress and thus started his rise to fame. She was a leading fashion icon; it was said that she was often the very first one to wear a new fashion, which was secondly adopted by the empress, and then accepted and copied by the rest of high society.
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era, a personality who combined both refined taste and finances to spread contemporary progressive culture. Her influence was equally strong on the development of the modern
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by secretly sending Eugénie's jewels to London in a diplomatic bag. In Vienna, she was admired for her social engagement, but also feared for her gossiping. Her enmity with
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was produced in Vienna in 1892, to popular acclaim. She also organised salon performances of abridged versions of many famous operas, including Richard Wagner's
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Since the marriage produced no sons, Richard's title of "Prince von Metternich" passed to his half-brother, Paul von Metternich.
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In her private life, however, Pauline suffered several crises and disasters. As a child, she was an eyewitness to the bloody
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was almost legendary and was enjoyed by the Habsburg court. After Elisabeth's death in 1898, Pauline together with
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empires and was believed to be a living symbol of these two lost worlds. A portrait of her by French
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Pauline Clementine Marie Walburga (Sándor von Szlavnicza), Fürstin von Metternich-Winneburg.
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Pauline Clementine Marie Walburga (Sándor von Szlavnicza), Fürstin von Metternich-Winneburg.
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Princess Metternich died in Vienna in 1921. She lived through the glory and fall of the
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Pauline accompanied her husband, an Austrian diplomat, on his missions to the royal
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in Vienna. In 1870 she remained at the side of Empress Eugénie in Paris during the
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music, political ideas, and sport. She was a close friend and confidante of French
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Princess Metternich was a big promoter of arts and music, especially of music of
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Pauline Clémentine Marie Walburga, Princess of Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein
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It is claimed that in August 1892 Pauline took part in a sword
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5. Countess Anna Maria Szapáry de Szapár muraszombati Szapáry
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Princess Pascalina Antoinette von Metternich-Sandor Winneburg
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Richard and Pauline von Metternich had three children :
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Princess Pascalina Antoinette von Metternich-Sandor Winneburg
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Princess Klementina Marie von Metternich-Sandor Winneburg
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Princess Klementina Marie von Metternich-Sandor Winneburg
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Richard, 2nd Prince of Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein
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7. Countess Maria Eleonore Gräfin von Kaunitz-Rietberg
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Klemens, Prince of Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein
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Franz Xaver Winterhalter
Vienna
Austrian Empire
Vienna
Republic of Austria
Richard, 2nd Prince of Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein
Princess Klementina Marie von Metternich-Sandor Winneburg
née
Austrian
Vienna
Paris
Richard Wagner
Bedřich Smetana
haute couture

daguerreotype
Hermann Krone
Hungarian noble
Sándor de Szlavnicza
Metternich-Winneburg
Klemens Wenzel von Metternich
Concert of Europe
Richard von Metternich
Waldstein-Wartenberg
Duchcov
Czech Republic

Edgar Degas
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