Jens Peter Jacobsen
Jens Peter Jacobsen
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At half-past the hour of eight in the evening of September twenty-sixth, the booming of cannon and the shrill trumpet notes of a festive march announced that both their Majesties, accompanied by his Highness Prince Johan, the Elector of Saxony, and his royal mother and followed by the most distinguished men and women of the realm, were proceeding from the castle down through the park to witness the ballet which was soon to begin.

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