Szatmári Gizella: Signs of Remembrance - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2005)
■ The plaque of the Archducheói AZ UTCA NÉVADÓJA MÁRIA DOROTTYA 1797 - 1855 JÓZSEF NÁDOR HITVESE. MAGYARORSZÁG UTOLSÓ jll NÁDORNÉJA, A MAGYAROK FELEJTHETETLEN: JÓTEVŐJE MARIA DOROTHEA 1191 ^ I 855 DIE NaMENSGEÍÉRIN DER STRASSE PALATIN JOSEFS GEMAHL IN DIE LETZTE PAI.ATINlSSA VON UNGARN DIE UNVERGESSENE WOHLTÄTERIN DER UNGARN at, given the fact that when his Majesty the King and Emperor Francis ran from Napoleon's forces to the Hungarian town of Tata in 1809, Joseph began his oration to the people with these words: "We are Hungarians! Hungarians, whose willingness to act grows with the growth of their trust...” Joseph’s third wife Dorothy also felt obliged to master the language and customs of Hungary once she had settled down in it. in 1826 she gave her New Year’s toast and a greeting to a parliamentary deputation in Hungarian. She often wore a Hungarian costume, visited with the Széchenyis and the Károlyis, and taught her children Hungarian. The court would not forget all that, and when Palatine Joseph died in January of 1847, she was ordered to depart from Hungary without delay and retire to a castle appointed to her as her official residence near Vienna. She returned to Hungary on a visit in April, but her cor25
