pastmalebeauty:Prince Constantin Radziwill (1850-1920), the father of Leon Radziwill, known as “Loch

pastmalebeauty:Prince Constantin Radziwill (1850-1920), the father of Leon Radziwill, known as “Loche”, and a friend of Proust since 1904. The prince, came from a large family of Lithuanian and Polish origin, and had married Louise Blanc (1854-1911), rich heiress of the Monaco Sea Bath Society. Prince Constantine had the reputation of having a certain penchant for his servants. George Painter reports that he “was famous for his squad of twelve valets, stout and handsome boys, to each of whom he gave, it is said, a pearl necklace”In a letter to Proust, the Duchess of Clermont-Tonnerre described the valets of the prince at the castle of Ermenonville: “his footmen dressed at dawn in blue, in short pants, had blond hair crinkled with iron - which inspired us with such admiration - that we dared not ask them to work, but we respected the useless beauty of these blue statues ” -- source link
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