Szatmári Gizella: Signs of Remembrance - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2005)

Royal Palace was awarded the Grand Prix of the 1900 Paris World Fair, ln 1918 the great architect was raised to the rank of nobility and dubbed Hauszmann of Velence by King Charles IV.

"Her Majesty, Mari Jászai"

The great tragic actress of the National Theatre, the greatest ever Medea or Antigone, was called "Her Majesty” by the writer Gyula Krúdy.

A long-cherished dream of Jászai’s came true in Buda, in 1867, when she stepped, still in the humble role of "chorus girl,” onto the stage in the Horváth Gardens. It had taken her years of trials and tribulations before she had got this far. She had toured Bohemia in the company of a couple of itinerant artistes as "the legless lady” and then "the female freak”, and she had worked as a camp-follower for a while before she turned eighteen.

In 1868 she signed up with a company at Kolozsvár and in 1872 she was already cast in the role of Lady Macbeth in Pest in the National Theatre directed by Ede Paulay. On 1 December 1879 she appeared as the witch Mirigy in the world-premiere of Mihály Vörösmarty's Cócngor and Tünde. At the opening night of Imre Madách’s The Tragedy of Man in 1883 she played Éva, and

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