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unusual facts about court life



Ruan Ji

As is traditionally depicted, a certain group of seven scholar/musician/poets wishing to escape the intrigues, corruption and stifling atmosphere of court life during the politically fraught Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history habitually gathered in the obscurity of a bamboo grove near the house of Xi Kang (aka Ji Kang) in Shanyang (now in Henan province).


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Chinese painting

Artists such as Zhou Fang showed the splendor of court life in paintings of emperors, palace ladies, and imperial horses.

Frances Minto Elliot

Gilbert Elliot had family connections with the Earls of Minto – her 1873 book, Old Court Life in France, is dedicated to "My niece The Countess of Minto".

Friedberg, Bavaria

The town became the centre of Bavarian court life, but was short lived when the town was ravaged by the plague in 1599.

Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia

Once a Grand Duke (Farrar & Rinehart 1933) is a source of dynastical and court life in Imperial Russia's last half-century.

Lesser Cuckoo

In Japan, the bird is called hototogisu (ホトトギス) and is frequently praised for its song, and ranked as her favorite bird by Sei Shonagon in her account of court life in Heian Japan, The Pillow Book.

Nicolas Chamfort

Disliking the constraints of court life, he became increasingly discontented, and after a year he resigned his post in the prince's household and retired to Auteuil.

Polykarp Leyser the Elder

In 1573 he was ordained and was granted a parish in Göllersdorf in lower Austria, where he joined the imperial councillor and erbtruchsess Michael Ludwig von Puchheim (1512–1580), who introduced him to court life under Maximilian II.

Robert James Shuttleworth

In his eighteenth year he went to Germany, passing a winter at Saxe-Weimar, where he enjoyed the court life and came to know Goethe.

Sissi – Fateful Years of an Empress

Her time in Hungary is only a temporary relief from the frustrations of court life in Vienna, where dutiful Franz Josef remains at his desk and allows his strict, domineering mother Sophie to interfere in the raising of his daughter with Sissi, Sophie.

Vladimir Frederiks

He was praised in this role by the French ambassador, Maurice Paléologue, who called him 'the very personification of court life'.