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Princess Metternich

  • [When asked at what age a woman ceases to feel the torments of the flesh:] I do not know, I am only sixty-five.

    • Princess Metternich,
    • in Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex ()

Princess Metternich, Austrian socialite and music patron

(1836 - 1921)

Full name: Princess Pauline Clémentine von Metternich – Winneburg zu Beilstein. Born: Countess Pauline Clémentine Marie Walburga Sándor de Szlavnicz.