Being a declassee from "really old wealth" - thank you WWI and the collapse of Austria Hungary - culture was a veneer to hide the hedonism. My great-grandmother

Being a declassee from "really old wealth" - thank you WWI and the collapse of Austria Hungary - culture was a veneer to hide the hedonism. My great-grandmother, born in 1890, had stories about who would fund the ballet vs the opera. And it had mostly to do with foot fetishism.