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"Bois de Berlin": the Tiergarten, Berlin's central park and fashionable promenade, equivalent to the Bois de Boulogne in Paris. ↩
The Godard balloon festival: Eugène Godard (1827–1890) was France's most celebrated aeronaut; his balloon ascents drew enormous crowds wherever he performed. A Berlin ascent drawing all of society would have been a major event. ↩
The 1881 pogroms: following the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in March 1881, waves of anti-Jewish violence swept through southern Ukraine and Russia. Marie is passing through precisely this region and her political commentary is sharp — she blames the new Tsar Alexander III's paralysis and hints that a more liberal policy could have defused the revolutionary pressure. ↩