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88 ELIZABETH, PRINCESS PALATINE *
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The pressing strong instance ' foreboding of Christina which he , paid expressed a visit that to the he Swedish should not court see .
the Holland severity again of , was the speedil climate y fulfilled , and he , for died his , health at Stockholm gave way , in under the
Palat following At inate the beg February inning His fam . of ily 1650 naturall , Charles y expected Louis to took share possession his prosperity of the ,
. Frankenthals and the poor her queen dower looke residence d eagerl . y forward But the to Elector the possession disapj ) ointed of
rei their gns , hopes had L . , been Unlike un his excep father tionable as a and ruler in uncle their _Tbut , who his domestic , un conduct wise relations as as sove son - , Charles ouis was sagacious
brother his , mother and husband ' s debts , was or to harsh fit and Frankenthal ungenerous , as . her He refused residence to , and pay the well-ni , h broken-hearted up at this last disappointment , ,
languished land queen after out , the her restoration days g at the of the Hague Stuarts , till . she To found his brothers refuge and in Eng
sisters the Elector was as mean as he was arbitrary , and Elizabeth was keenlmortified to find him well content to leave her almost
her dependent troubles y on had the been bounty born of e the in Elector silence of but Brandenburg of this she . speaks Most in of
, strong and bitter terms in her correspondence with Prince Rupert . By the end of the year , however home , at Charles the Palatine Louis was court gracious
favorite her enoug youngest h to remained offer sister the to , Sop princess share hia , her joined a seclusion her , while and Louisa poverty , their at the mother . Hague Here ' s .
Seven year , s afterwards , this princess , attracted by the peculiar fascination which the Catholicabove all other forms of faith
seems to possess for the disappointed , and unhappy , secretly fied to , Franceembraced that religion , and taking the veil , became that
Abbess , of Maubisson , whose pungent wit and unsparing criticisms at once amused and provoked the court of the Grand _Monarque _*
A letter from some unknown hand , writfcen soon after Elizabeth jhad taken up her residence sister at Heidelb and erg , describes cc that of very the
princess learned , lad statel y , our y , tall Ele , and ctor ' s calm , with , " a so deep we shade get a g of limpse the Stuart melancholon her face" who takes little pleasure save in books
and may y almost be said , to live in the library . " This was the , library of the University , which , then rising under Charles Louis
from the ruins of the Thirty Years' War , paid a public tribute to the members acquirement dedicated s of his sister a volume . Hotlinger of his , one " Church of its most History distinguished " to her ,
• with an , address , in which , after enumerating all the women of he learning winds who with had ever lived praises from the of Queen herself of addressed Sheba downwards as Claris , .
up pompous , ho Partl have y because kt much she alo always of from avoided the literati such homage of Heid , Elizabeth elband seems also erg
that , during ep the latter part of her residence there , Ixe , r former
88 Elizabeth, Princess Palatine *
88 ELIZABETH , PRINCESS PALATINE *
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1862, page 88, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041862/page/16/
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