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Excerpt from A Royal Recluse: Memories of Ludwig II. Of Bavaria Within Castle Nymphenburg, the Crown Princess Marie of Bavaria had waited twelve long hours for the birth of the future King. The new - born babe, upon whom a great and illustrious future smiles, is named Ludwig, after his grandfather. Bavaria, which through Napoleon I. Had become a king dom and which also through the medium of Napoleon, as well as later by the provisions of the Congress of Vienna in 18 15 was considerably increased in size, now took its place at the head of the smaller German States. Ludwig I., who erected the wonderful Walhalla near Regensburg, had, by consistently patronising the Arts during his reign, transformed Munich, formerly nicknamed the Beer Town into a cultural centre. The events of 1 848, ending in the forced abdication of the first Bavarian king, placed his son Maximilian on the throne. He, although a follower of the then fashionable liberalism and surrounding himself with free-thinking counsellors, withstood the foundation of a German Em pire under Prussian leadership and refused to acknowledge the Imperial Constitution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.