Cigarette Fire: Archduchess Mathilda

Cigarette Fire: Archduchess Mathilda

Archduchess Mathilda of Austria, daughter of Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, died in 1867 after setting her dress on fire while trying to hide a cigarette from her father, who had forbidden her to smoke.

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