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15 October 2021
See Page 257-8 The Life of Mark Twain - The Middle Years 1871-1891]
Compared to the university town, Baden-Baden was a disappointment. Still engrossed in furnishing the Hartford house, Livy spent much of her time in the shops. But in his travelogue Sam depicted the city ambivalently, noting that the town “sits in the lap of the hills; and the natural and artificial beauties of the surroundings are combined effectively and charmingly,” but he also observed “sham, and petty fraud, and snobbery.”
See Bædeker The Rhine from Rotterdam to Constance (1878) Route 44 page 274