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Monday, January 15, 2007

Emperor Franz Joseph

Here is an article from Triumphant Baroque about Emperor Franz Joseph, the "longsuffering." The Emperor of Austria-Hungary, he lost his beloved wife Empress Elizabeth to assassination and his only son to suicide. He was a great, great grand-nephew of Marie-Antoinette.
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 16, 2007 at 1:29:00 PM EST

    Didn't he intervene in a papal conclave in some way?

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  2. elena maria vidalJanuary 16, 2007 at 1:50:00 PM EST

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  3. elena maria vidalJanuary 16, 2007 at 1:54:00 PM EST

    There is information about that in the article I just posted above about Karl and Zita.

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