From Prince Metternich reported the Anecdote as the Danish ambassador had declared that he wanted to quickly put on his orders, but of all the Danish Order of elephants did not his servant can beischaffen. "How does because of that! Ironically, the Danish order do not you think!"
He had quickly sent to a fellow diplomats and borrowed the elephant order.
short auditioned before the ambassador, arrived the Order. Metternich quickly put to him and then received the Ambassador. The
came in and, although usually eloquent, he lacked the words. Somewhat impatiently asked Metternich, he had put forward then.
Then the ambassador: "I should inform you for our give king the elephant Order, and now I see that it already has. "
As Prince Metternich found it with the elephant Order, it was Baron seems to Guttenberg with the doctorate. If he does not, had it had to ... be a mistake, which had to be remedied quickly Unfortunately he was caught on the wrong side of
True, by Prince reported Metternch it only anecdote
One course is banal fact: Prince Metternich was in fact the leading statesman Europe, a decade long exercised a dominant influence on European policy. But the elephant Order, he was not.
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