Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia" BOOK VIII.
Page: 58

Her flaming red countenance, her shape, of such monstrous extent
that she could hardly walk, gave her the air of a Female Bacchus.
She took care to expose to view her"--a part of her person, large
but no longer beautiful,--"and continually kept patting it with
her hands, to attract attention thither. Though sixty gone,"--
fifty-seven in point of fact,--"she was tricked out like a girl;
hair done in ribbon-locks (MARRONNES), all filled with gewgaws of
rose-pink color, which was the prevailing tint in her complexion,
and so loaded with colored jewels, you would have taken her for
the rainbow." [Wilhelmina, i. 375.]

This charming old Lady, daughter of the GROSSE KURFURST, and so
very fat and rubicund, had a Son once: he too is mentionable in
his way,--as a milestone (parish milestone) in the obscure
Chronology of those parts. Her first husband was the Duke of
Courland; to him she brought an heir, who became Duke in his
turn,--and was the final Duke, LAST of the "Kettler" or native
Line of Dukes there. The Kettlers had been Teutsch Ritters,
Commandants in Courland; they picked up that Country, for their
own behoof, when the Ritterdom went down; and this was the last of
them. He married Anne of Russia with the big cheek (Czar Peter's
Niece, who is since become Czarina); and died shortly after,
twenty years ago; with tears doubtless from the poor rose-pink
Mother, far away in Baireuth and childless otherwise; and also in
a sense to the sorrow of Courland, which was hereby left vacant, a
prey to enterprising neighbors. And on those terms it was that
Saxons Moritz (our dissolute friend, who will be MARECHAL DE SAXE
one day) made his clutch at Courland, backed by moneys of the
French actress; rumor of which still floats vaguely about.
Moritz might have succeeded, could he have done the first part of
the feat, fallen in love with Swoln-cheeked Anne, Dowager there;
but he could not; could only pretend it: Courland therefore (now
that the Swoln-cheek is become Czarina) falls to one Bieren, a
born Courlander, who could. [Last Kettler, Anne's Husband, died
(leaving only an old Uncle, fallen Into Papistry and other