The Cottage the Emperor Would Not Accept
Černínský palác
The palace was also called a cottage, whether for its size — it is a hundred and fifty metres long — or for its dilapidation. Count Černín is said to have offered it as a gift to the Emperor Joseph II, asking that he might deign to accept that cottage on Hradčany from him. But the emperor replied that he had no need of cottages, and that the count ought not to live in a cottage either. And from that time, it is said, no Černín ever set foot in the palace again.