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230 REGNARD’S JOURNEY TO LAPLAND.
The horfes are harnaffed with ropes, and the coachman is on horfeback, fince one
of them heard upon his feat, a fecret that he revealed. _ All the attendants travel on
horfeback.
Before the Emperor can be elevated to the Imperial dignity, he muft have been eleét-
ed King of the Romans, and he cannot enjoy this title, till he is fourteen years of age.
The Emperors are elected and crowned at Frankfort, but the crown is at Aix-la-chapelle.
The Emperor is very fond of hunting ; 1 was at a hunt, which he made on his return
from Oldenbourg, where they killed eighty or ninety wild boars with the fword. Thofe
who are near the Emperor kill them from a lodge which is prepared for him. They
treat the Emperor with the refpect due to His Sacred Majefty. He carries the order of
the Fleece; but he does not give it, and it belongs folely to the King of Spain.
We never have ambafladors at Vienna, becaufe Spain wifhes to have the precedence,
as being of the fame houfe. The Marquis of Seleville was, at this time, envoy extra-
ordinary. We lived with the Marquis, and I had a private converfation with the
Marchoinefs; fhe is one of the moft intelligent and virtuous ladiesI have ever known.
We knew there M. de Saint-Laurent, coufin of Madame the Marchionefs Pigore. We
dined feveral times with the Count de Stirum.
The Count of Staremberg is governor of the city ; he wifhed to havea difpute with
Mefirs. de Marfillac and d’ Alincourt, becaufe they had not told their names at the court.
Vienna takes its name from a little river, which pafles between the fuburb of Iflaw
and the city, which, when it overflows its banks, makes dreadful ravages. The
Danube paffes here alfo. It is the largeft river in Europe; it takes its rife in ————_
and after flowing feven or eight hundred leagues, it falls into the Black Sea, by feven
mouths. Its courfe is contrary to that of all the other rivers of the world; it flows
from weft to eaft, and there is no other, except the Po, that refembles it,
The Louvre is a large fquare ftructure, which contains nothing remarkable. Its
court is ufed asa riding-houfe. The gentlemen have fteps of wood to aflift themin
mounting their horfes.
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