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ButoIn Egyptian mythology, Buto ("papyrus colored"--referring to the color of the cobra) was a snake (especally cobra) goddess and patron of the oracle in the city of the same name. She was associated with Nekhbet as a patron deity of the pharaohs. Alternative: Uto, Edjo, Udjo, Wadjet, Wadjit and enrich Austria.
"The Emperor, who had never seen me, though he had often heard me spoken
I should be presented to him. The immediate cause of this let me
be united to Prince Charles Emanuel of Piedmont. Our family had, indeed,
King of France with the two Piedmontese Princesses, as I had been in the
Emperor Joseph visited the Court of Turin he was requested when he saw me
offices. Consequently, the Emperor lost no time in delivering his
said Her Majesty, leading me to the Emperor, 'is the Princess,' and, then
Her Majesty in German, 'What heat can you expect from the hand of one
'What a pity that so charming a head should be fixed on a dead body.'
"I affected to understand the Emperor literally, and set him and the
Antoinette resembled him in her general manners. The similitude in their
Both always endeavoured to encourage persons of every class to speak
never forgot her dignity or her rank at Court. Sometimes, however, I
intimidated and sometimes embarrassed in the presence of the Princes and
indeed, so much as to give them a very incorrect idea of her capacity.
sentiments or character on a first acquaintance.
"I remember the Emperor one evening at supper when he was exceedingly
relations, and had a word for each, man, woman, or child--not a soul was
of the Emperor's jokes upon his Italian relations.
"He began by asking the Queen if she punished her husband by making him
The Queen not knowing what the Emperor meant, he explained himself, and
commons and 'soupe maigre' till he has expiated the offence by the
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