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Nobility aid to wounded in Austria described by relief efforts
A Viennese noblewoman Baroness M Reitzes sells her famed pearl necklace to buy bread for impoverished soldiers and their families. Other aristocrats, Countess Manon von Dumfrucker and Countess Sierstorff, donate cork legs and tobacco to troops, reinforcing a sense of patriotic care lacking in prior eras. The story contrasts wartime generosity with pre revolutionary French court apathy and notes cork legs are a growing wartime industry in the United States.
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M. Reitzes
Vienna
Europe
Manon von Dumrefcher
Countess Sierstorff
Louis XIV
Nobls
Syme
Cork
United States