Kasteel en Tuinen van Freÿr / Maas (België)

At the gunfire sound (letters)

• Ninne was the eldest child of Camille de Laubespin and Gilda of Beaufort-Spontin.
• At 18 years, she met at the baths of Ostend, Wladimir von Daun, General of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and older by 25 years. She became his "small wife" and moved to Vienna and Wottau (Bîtov).
• Daun was sent to Italy during the wars of independence. Ninne followed her husband to the gunfire sound. She left letters (alas untraceable) where she reports her husband campaign.
• One finds there:
  • When meeting troops of her husband, her Austrian coachman spoke,
  • with troops of Cavour and Garibaldi, her Italian lady's companion dialogued,
  • and with those of Napoleon III, Ninne herself went up to the crenels.