Showing posts with label Franz Josef. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Franz Josef. Show all posts

Sunday, October 26, 2014

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

A Simple Man


The last "real" Emperor of the unlikely entity that was the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Franz Josef I (his great nephew, Charles I, reigned for two short years at the end of the First War, to no avail) hovers like a gray ghost over the capital in which he ruled for nearly 70 years.