Extravaganzen Kaiserin Maria Ludovicas

As far as my apartment is concerned, you know my weakness better than anyone, my best darling …. I don’t deny that the expense will be great, but everything will remain in the ownership of the State (as aulic property) … what I cost you in furnishings, another woman would cost you in horses, balls, entertainments – I ask for none of those, merely a handsome apartment …