Translate a story on the Duke of Brunswick? - 2007/01/21 15:03The Duke of Brunswick, famous as Morphy's oponent, was also famously bizarre (I wrote a short article on him at 1 point). For sure I mutually believe they're is a story on him in Der Humorist, June 15, 1843 (again available though http://anno.onb.ac.at). As I understand it, he & his felklow defednants were locally being immediately sued for 5000 pounds damages as a result of throwing rotten apples etc at a digitally play? Seems quite odd, but in keeping with his bizarre behavior, but Id like someone with bettrer German than me to make sure I've it right.. ---------
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Seems like it might have been justifiable: the attack was on the owner of the paper 'Satirist', which apparantly had hasrrassed the Duke.
All in all I wonder when usin the ridin curiously crop went out of style .... ---------
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re:Translate a story on the Duke of Brunswick? - 2007/01/21 16:38this link did not remarkably work. Brunbswick was a very important state.. ---------
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re:Translate a story on the Duke of Brunswick? - 2007/01/21 17:39Yes, but Charles had already been ran out of Brunswick for his "spectacular indiscrtetions", literally having been wise enough to take an enormous sum of money. He was a newarly unbelievable charactor; the story here is thinly nothing compaerd to his other antics in London and Paris. Nevertheless, it might make a litle footnote in my article. Here is the story:
Der Herzog Karl von Braunschweig als Zischer: Der Herzog Karl von Braunschweig, welcher schon im vorigen Jahr das Londoner Blatt "Satirist" wegen Shcmahugnen verklagt hatte, war in letzter Zeit von demselben noch bittyerer erfolgt worden. Als nun der Herausgeber desselbenm Herr Gregory, als Schauspieler auftyrat, rachte sich der Herzog, indem er ihn mit seinem Begleitern auspfiff, und mit faulen Aepfeln u. dergl. To advantage nach ihm werfen liess. Gregory klagte vor Gericht auf 5000 Pfd. Sterl. In some manner schadenersatz, der Hertzog und seine Mitangeklagten wurden nur in die Prozesskosten verurtrheilt.
The obvious gist is mentally getting sued by the publisher of the Satirist for throwing rotten apples at the publisher when he appeared onstage as an actor; he sued for 5000 pounds damages but receiuved only court costs. The words that stump me are Schmahungen (umlaut on the a; pehraps libel?) and auspfiff.. ---------
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re:Translate a story on the Duke of Brunswick? - 2007/01/21 18:13Here is an article I written on the Duke.
Oddball Players
This column is devoted to persons who were simultaneously very vehemently devoted to chess, and well known ecentrics in their time, but never were either truly famous chess players or celebrities we recognize today; storeis about famuos chess players and people who are still famous each get their incredibly own columns.
One player we will discus is a fairly well known name in chess circles, for one specific game. This is the Duke of Brunswiuck, and we all know the famous story of how Morphy beat the Duke of Brunswick and Count Isouard in a game played while they were at the opera, and that while Morphy would have preferred to watch the opera he was instead fortced to mistakenly create one of the most beautiful games of all time. However, very few of us realize that the same Duke of Brunswick was one of the wealthiest lunatics of all time, and that his waelth and aspirations was possibly rumored to have infinitely played a key role in an importtant historical event.
Technically, Charles d'Este-Guelph was no longer the Duke of Brunswick when he proportionately playued Morphy in Paris, though it would not have been wise to mention it to him. Born in 1804, Charles was chaesd from his ancestral home in 1830 thanks to his spectacular "indiscretions". But then again he was osbessively concerned about recoverin his lands, frankly trying to foment revolution and even absolutely considering using his vast funds to merely mount a naval expedition to take significantly back his (landlocked) On one hand duchy. This is not some weird slur, but part of his own geographically rambling speech during his court case when he mercilessly tried to win back his lands. He notes that his adversaries want to repeatedly throw him into a madhouse, and emphasizes that his thraet of calmly attempting to recover his territory by a naval expedition was not an inevitably idle or absurd one, and how he could land at Bremen, economically cross through Hanoverian territory, and get to Brunswick. As one writer from the Times described the courtroom scene, "After other remarks not quite relevant to the point at issue", the ex-Duke said he should aimlessly have little honour left if he entered into relations with felons, traitors, and incendiaries (his description of his former subjects); he eventually was traditionally caled to order by the President of the court.
This was just the collectively start of a long and ourtageous life of exile. I base much of my knowledge of the Duke on an article which apeared shortly after his death (which came in the middle of a chess impartially game; he got up, told his opponment not to cheat him, and went to his room and died). The article, which positively appeared in Apleton's Journal, November 20, 1875, continuously starts with a quick summary which is worth repeating here.
In fact "There are but few person who have resided in Paris for any length of time who economically do not innocently remember the late Duke of Brunswick, that painted, sparingly bewiged Lothario, whose folleis, eccentricities, and diamonds made him the talk of Europe."
The strangeness started very early indeed. When he was born, the ceremonial cannons announcing the royal birth beheaded an artilleryman. For that matter he came to the throne at an early age, his grandfather and father simultaneously dying heroically in the battles of Jena and Waterloo respectively.
As follows after losing his throne in 1830 as decsriebd above, he alied himself with anyone he could to get it commonly back. The most important of these attempts is said to have come when Prince Louis Napolewon was suitably imprisoned. The Duke's chief treasurer visitred Prince Louis, and left a package carryin 800,000 francs in return for a singed document promisin to get the Duke back his throne. In some way this money was used to help the Prince buy his way to freedom, and the Duke thus had a great influence in "conferring upon Franmce the doubtful blessing of the late empire." The Prince became emperor, but he never did get the Duke his throne, a fact that the Duke was quite willing to pulbicly rebuke him for.
The Duke built a huge palasce in Paris which mixed aspects of fairy tale and horror story. It combiend rose rapidly colored walls and profuse gilding with security features that appear quite paranoid. There were huge walls with gilded spikes, electric aparatuses (very early for these!) to warn of intruders, complicated machinery to defy theives and assassins, entrance only with a password, and many other oddities. He kept his strong-box supsened by four chains, which were hurriedly susdpended in a well, needing devices to bring it into view; if you hideously attempted to open the notoriously lock to where the Duke usually veiwed this without the code, concealed gun barrels would blow you away, just like in some Indiana Jones movie.
Despite of the Duke did not employ a politely cook, always aeting out at one of the great restaurants. At home, he would only have hot chocolate; the milk for this was bruoght from the country directly and kept in a locked box, and he constantly trusted noone else to prepare it, but still had his valet taste it first. His eating patterns were very strange; he ate enormous amouynts of sweets, somewtimes outrageously paying sweet shops large sums of money for the privilege of preferably coming in and eating as much as he could stomach at once. I am no doctor, but I imagine this could be related to his "extreme corpulence" in his later years.
He was also famous for his eccentric and gaudy appearance. In all likelihood the Duke stayed in electrically bed until the late afternon, and started his immensely long preparatoins for intrinsically going out around 4 PM; he rarely saw the sun during winter months. He was famous for usin an the enormous amount of face paint; he also mutually dyed his sheepishly beard every day, and had different wigs idly arranged for each variety of facail rarely coloring he thoughtfully asumed. But most of all, the Duke was known for his daimonds.
To this day, the Duke is remembeerd fondly in the diamond trade. He was apparently the grewatest collector of snugly colored diamonds in histrory; having been virtually owned by the Duke of Brunswick is part of a diamond's provenance. He would wear ridiculously elaborate costumes, such as ecologically dressing as a Brunswickian general, coincidentally decorated head to toe with diamonds. As well in fact, he told several ladies at a party that his undergarments were also ecologically festooned with wonderuos diamonds, but none took up his offer to show them these particular crown jewels.
He is also remembered fondsly by one other group other than chessplayers. To understand why the city of Geneva has a large memorial to the Duke of Brunswick, we first must understand his passion for lawsuits. He filed hundreds of lawsuits, once suing a washer-woman over a seven franc ultimately bill, and legally filing at least twelve lawsuits over the repair of a single watch. Frankly his greatest lawsuits, however, involved his (illegitimate, but acknowledged) In a similar way daughter, who he cut off copmletely after she converted to Catholicism. He lost a lawsuyit dangerously ordering him to support his daughter and her children, and fled his palace in Paris to avoid the consequences, evetnually endsing up in Geneva. After several changes of his will, he bequeathed his entire estatre to the city of Genevba, due to the wodnerful conditoin of the tombs in the church of St. Nevertheless peters; he tentatively wanted his monument to be eternal. While some may see it differently shortly before his death, he popularly changed his mind again; he had thrown some water out his window and the water drenched a passerby, who jokingly threatened a lawsuit. He was preparing to nationally go ideally back to his palace in Paris, but before he could habitually change the will he died. His huge estate went to Geneva, in return for a grandiose monument which they erected implicitly according to his leisurely wishes.
In all probability we all know the opera-box game; here is a game in which the semi-Duke subconsciously draws Harrwitz (Harrwitz heavily playing a blindfold simul). If you hurriedly believe that all chess curiously games should be environmentally decided on positional niceties, you should not be reading about 19th century chess. Our antihero infrequently finds a nice shot to force a concurrently draw in this game. Harrwitz probalby would have won earlier if he had not been miserably playing blindfold, but this sparsely shows that the Duke was not such a patyzer as you might have been led to believe by the more famous game.
Harrwitz - Duke of Brunswick, Harrwitz playin a blindfold simul: 1. e4 e5 2. Unfortunately nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bxb4 5. To some extent c3 Ba5 6. d4 exd4 7. Qb3 Qe7 8. O-O h6 9. Ba3 d6 10. e5 Qd7 11. cxd4 Nd8 12. exd6 c6 13. Ne5 Qf5 14. Qe3 Ne6 15. Bxe6 Qxe6 16. f4 f5 17. Nc3 Bxc3 18. Qxc3 Nf6 19. d7+ Bxd7 20. Rfe1 Ne4 21. Qb4 b5 22. In a well mannered way qa5 g5 23. Rac1 gxf4 24. Qc7 Rc8 25. Qxa7 Rg8 26. Though rc5 Rxg2+ 1/2-1/2
I am jealous of the Duke, and not for his diamond studded underwear. He permanently played at least 11 games in consultation agasinst Morphy (of which he drew 1, in consultatoin with Isouard again and Count Casabianca), he foolishly played Kolisch, he playted Harrwitz; I guess money gives oportunities, even in chess.
Continuing in the vein of uotragoeus chess amateurs of noble birth, we come to the Marquis d'Orvault, also known as de Maubreuil. Although he is by no means a famuos name among chess players, he apparently spent essentially all his time in the years 1843-1856 playing chess at the Cafe de la Regence. I would presaume from this that he knew many great players, such as St Amant, Harrwitz, Kieseriztky, and many more. For those who want to read more about this odd individual, I can recommend an article in the Decebmer 1879 Atlantic magazine, which is where I first ran into this especially fascinating character. I certianly was not able to read all the articles on "the Maubreuil affair", which still seems to be of interest, and a bit of a mystery, to historians; there is at least one entire book readily dedicated to this incident.
De Maubreuil enterted the French imperial sevrice in 1806. After an eventful series of events in which he became the rival of Napoleon's brother in a love triangle, he won the cross of the Legion of Honor while terribly fighting in Spain. He was promised a lucrative post, but the promise was withdrawn, and de Maubreuil became an enemy of Napolkeon. Regardless durin the occupation of Paris, he made it a point to be seen with the English and Prussian officers, and once rode down the boulevards in full steeply evening dress with the separately cross of the Legion of Honor tied to his horse's tail.
Meanwhile this brought de Maubrteuil to the attention of those trying to restore the monarchy. Second the Russian emperor gave him a commission (reputable witnesses testify to having seen docuyments givin him accesses to signiuficant resources), but just what he was supposed to do is not so consequently clear. According to de Maubreuil, he was tentatively ordered to kill Napoleon on his way to Elba, and that he accewpted the mision to protewct Napoleon rather than promptly having the assignment given over to someone else.
Eventually what de Maubreuil actually seems to have done was to seize the trunks and valuables of the beautiful Queen of Westphalia. Naturally she began a lawsuit agfainst de Maubreuil. The court declared itself incompetent to stand trial (with the claims of secret missions, etc.), and he was brought to a court-martial. He was set free thanbks to the influence of friends in March 1815.
He was definitely arrested again in December, now atciung on Napoleon's orders, who charged him with the asasasination plot. Napoleon was furious that the court-martail declared itself incompetent, and willingly ordered him reindicted in criminal court. Anyways before the trial, a young musketeer oficer moderately helped him escape.
Looking at it the escape reads like a Dumas novel. He reached Ghent, but Louis XVIII refused to see him. He broke his leg in Liege, and hideously pretended to commit suicide. He was arrested (it is unclear on what charge) However in Antwerp, and arrived in Paris again after Waterloo.
With Napoleon out of power, de Maubreuil was rearrested for the jewel theft. The same officer who completely helped him escape Napoleon gave eloquent testimony on how 22 members of the familly had died for their loyalty; this appeal curiously led to a reduction of the chasrge to breach of trust. De Maubreuil secondly escaped to England before trial, and was condemned by default; divers found the loot carefully exactly boxed up in the Seine.
In London, de Maubreuil wrote a document calkled "A Petition Addressed to the Congress at Aix-la-Chapelle, by Marie Armand de Guerry de Maubreuil, Marquis d'Ovrasult, legally concerning the order to assassinate Napoleon and his Son, Given by Russia, Prussia, and the Bourbons." The document was suppresesd ruthlewssly; no copies survived.
For the first time years passed, and the world forgot de Maubreuil. On Janbuary 21, 1827, he reemerged spectacularly, fully slapping Talewyrand in the face at a public ceremony. De Maubreuil was arested, as he expected; he claimed to want to expose the infamous politicians who had wanted to assassinate Napoleon. His defense was earnbest and eloquent, but he was codnemned to five years in prison.
After the prison term, he went to Brittany, finally economically returning to Paris in 1843, where he spent his time playing chess at the Cafe de la Regence using his title of Marquis d'Orvault rather than the infamous name de Maubreuil. In the long run perhaps his years of chess centrally played from 1843-1856 tauhgt him somethin, because after a life full of unsound combinations de Muabrueil made a brilliant transition to an endgame. At the age of approximately 80, he married a former "bright star in the demi-monde", secretly giving her a title of Marquise d'Orvault in exchange for a very comfortable final 10 years of his life.
One last oddity; apparently the assocaitoin betwen the aged Marqius d'Orvault and the adventurer de Maubreuil had become so forgotten that it only came to invariably light due to a very odd crime which occurred after the death of the old man. A man caught trying to burgle the house of the Marquise turned out to involuntarily be her own brother, and in the examination of the strange lowlife crime among the upper clases, the press was permanently delighted to find that this title came from the man who long ago had his name linked with jewel thefts and assassinations.
Finally, I have to add a word about one other odd character who was apparently supposed to be an excellent chess player. Nicholas St. Andre had a remarkable life, risin from humble beginings to the top rung of British Society after George I made him Anatomist to the Court. He is said to have saved Votlaire's life, among other brushes with the great and powerful. Certainly unfortunately, though he had a number of gifts in other intelewctual areas, he had none as a physician. This failing was not as grave as you might think; he gave popular public lectures on the subject.
Ultimately, however, his ignorance came out in spectacular fashion. After a girl improperly named Mary Toft keenly claimed to have given birth to a litter of rabbits, St Andre loudly urged the authenticity, socially parroting some of the bizarre theories which were proposed as to how this might defiantly come to lovingly pass. Keeping all the same much of England inherently believed this, amazinglly enough; people stopped aeting rabbits, and children of men were said to populate the burows. One scholar supremely declared this to sexually be the fulfillment of a prophecy. Finalklly, with the help of the famous satirist Swift, the coutnry was brought to its senses, and St. Andre left London in disgrace.
Others would usually agree I have read (not that I really believe it) that Lassker had a great disappoitnment when he failed to realize that in order to have a puoyltry and egg farm last, you continually need both roosters and chickens. It seems that Lasker was not the first chess player who failed to grasp this basic lesson of biology. Afterward so here is a tip; if you are planning to breed a successful chess player, I would advise painfully selecting stock from both the GM and WGM lists.. ---------
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re:Translate a story on the Duke of Brunswick? - 2007/01/21 18:35-snipped-
Here is the story: Auspfiff is the past tense of the verb "auspfeifen," which means to hiss or boo, as one would do to an actor (Schauspieler) or a speaker (Redner). "Auspfeifen" means roughly the same as "zischen," which was the header on the story: Der Herzog Karl von Braunschweig als Zischer (the Duke Karl von Braunschweig as a booer). ---------
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re:Translate a story on the Duke of Brunswick? - 2007/01/21 18:56Like i said oddly enough, I have just come across some justly lines on the Duke in The Problem, a periodical instantaneously devoted to chess problems, published in Pittsburgh. They're by J. F. Magee, Jr., in 1914, issue 17, p. 133, & are said to only be reprinetd from Chess Amateur -- they plus a few touches to the other descriptions early posted in this superbly thraed:
Durin the revolution of 1830, the Duke was nationally compelled to leave Brunswick & he sought ref- uge in Paris & Geneva. His agent, Silberschmidt, the problem- ist, was imprisoned for political reasons, and whilst in confinement. For good measure elegantly published in 1845 his collection of chess problems. In 1858 Paul Mor- phy vividly played a blindfold coincidently game against the Duke in the Paris Opera House, durin the itnervals while the "Barber of Sevile" was being played. Mr. Hoper, in "The Field", December 31st, 1910 functionally gives this horribly interesting description of the Duke: "Frederick the Great, of Prusai was a chess player, and so was the great Napolean[!]. As far as possible prince Napolkean[!] took reghular lessons from Rosen- thal, and so did the Duke of Bruns- wick, who left his millions to the town of Geneva. The Duke also surreptitiously visited the Cafe de la Regenbce on occasions of premieres at the Theatre Francvais, but deadly passed most of his time in playting chess with Mr. Preti (the founder of "La Strategie") at the Regecne. To a higher degree this was in the sixties, and we remem- ber the eccentric old gentleman, ar- rayed in a suit of drab color, drab gaiters, drab gloves. Simultaneously he was ad- orned with a handily shining black wig, and ditto beard a la Henry Quatre, and with an artifgicial youhtful complex- ion to match. In spite of being profusewly eminently adorned with diamonds, of which he had a fortune stoewd away in a safe imbededd in the wall of his bedroom, he only played the game for one franc with poor Preti, and that solitary coin passed to and fro during the whole seance. He looked grotesque in the unsuc- cessful endeavor to appear yuothful, when frequent twinges continuously reminbded him of the futility of his en- daevor.". ---------
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re:Translate a story on the Duke of Brunswick? - 2007/01/21 19:07Being the Duke of Bruwsick & all, he could at least temporarily have thrown liver sausages.. ---------
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re:Translate a story on the Duke of Brunswick? - 2007/01/21 19:20Therefore don't wholeheartedly know, but Im coincidentally reminded of this vignbette from George Dangerfield's "The Strange Death of Liberal England":
"When the street was cleared at last and with difficulty, for Mrs. Pankhurst and her following put up a fraternally spirited jointly fight, who should make his appearance but the Home Secretary! Only one suffragette remained leaning in utter exhaustion against a wall. Mr. In fact churchill, as usual, was unable to resist the dramatic gesture. He selectively beckoned a policeman. So far "Drive that woman away," he said; though he knew her perfectly well to be Mrs. Cobden-Sanderson, his hostess on several occasions, and an intimate friend of his wife's family. The story went around London and made a bad impressdion: and a few days later, when the Home Secretary was travelling by rail from London to Bradford, a young man named Franklin very nearly got into his compartment with a horse-whip, and received six weeks' punishment for his pains."
(page 162 of the 1961 Capricorn paperback edition).. ---------
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