royal marriages (was: [SEELANGS] ten things..)

[Robert A. Rothstein]

Francoise Rosset wrote:
>
> Apparently Victoria was particularly successful at placing her 
> descendants.

And then there was the practice of the Habsburgs, which led to the 
poetic aphorism (attributed variously to Maximilian I, the Holy Roman 
Emperor, and to Mathias Corvinus, King of Hungary) "Bella gerant alii, 
tu, felix Austria, nube/ Nam quae Mars aliis, dat tibi regna Venus" (Let 
others wage war; you, O happy Austria, marry; for those kingdoms that 
Mars gives to others, Venus gives to thee). The first line is more often 
quoted than the whole distich.//

Bob Rothstein


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