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Princess Augusta of Bavaria

Strasbourg, 21 Jun 1788 – Munich, 1851

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A life in time

  1. 21 Jun 1788

    Born in Strasbourg

  2. 1807–1817

    4 children are born

  3. 1851

    Dies in Munich

Family

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Parents

Partner

Children · 4

During her lifetime

She lived through 8 decades. Pick one to hear and see what it was like around Strasbourg.

General history, not a record about the family: each item says where it comes from.

The 1780s · Princess is born in Strasbourg

In the news1783

First human flight in 1783

King Louis XVI hosted the first successful human flight in a hot-air balloon at Versailles, lasting 25 minutes on November 21, 1783.

What people wore

Commoners often went barefoot and wore secondhand

Ordinary rural people in France often went barefoot during the warmer seasons and relied heavily on secondhand clothing, as buying new outfits was exceptional.

Daily life

Limited rural schooling

In many rural areas, primary education was inconsistently provided by the local priest or his vicar, focusing only on basic reading, writing, and catechism.

In the news1789

Storming of the Bastille in 1789

On July 14, 1789, Parisian citizens stormed the Bastille prison, a pivotal event that signaled the start of the French Revolution and the collapse of royal authority.

Music

Wind instruments dominated outdoor civic festivals

Wind instruments, especially the bassoon-serpent, were highly prized for outdoor festivities and civic celebrations because they were loud enough to be heard by large crowds. During the Revolution, the government promoted powerful patriotic hymns like La Marseillaise, often played by wind ensembles to help mobilize and unify citizens.

In Europe1772–1795

Poland is partitioned

Russia, Prussia and Austria divided Poland among themselves in three steps until, in 1795, it vanished from the map for 123 years.

Getting around

Long travel times across France

To cross France from Brest to Strasbourg, it took 20 to 30 days on foot or by a slow-moving carriage. Travelers using horse-drawn carriages that changed horses at relay stations could cover the same distance in half that time, though this was an exhausting effort.