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 | | In 1774 he became involved in an uncomfortably close friendship with Maximiliane Euphrosine von La Roche Brentano, daughter of the novelist Sophie von La Roche and future mother of the poet Clemens Brentano, while she was adjusting with difficulty to her marriage to Peter Anton Brentano, a wealthy Frankfurt merchant. |
 | | Karl August relived him of all official obligations, except the directorship of the court theather, which was officially established in 1791, and of libraries and natural-historical and artistic collections in the duchy, including those at the University of Jena. |
 | | Most severe among these was the rupture with Frau von Stein, who could not forgive his having left her -let alone his open installation of a mistress, Christiane Vulpius, in his house shortly after his return. |
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