Excerpt from Francis Joseph and His Times It is pleasant to tarry awhile with Maria Theresa, one of the few clean-minded and in most ways essentially attractive figures of that corrupt, liceu tious eighteenth century, the closing years of which were to be smothered in the bloodshed and nameless horrors of the French Revolution. Devoted to her inconstant husband, her own wish and dream - how ever incongruous with the times she lived in - was, according to the Prussian Envoy, Podewils, who watched her closely, de faire un mï ...
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Excerpt from Francis Joseph and His Times It is pleasant to tarry awhile with Maria Theresa, one of the few clean-minded and in most ways essentially attractive figures of that corrupt, liceu tious eighteenth century, the closing years of which were to be smothered in the bloodshed and nameless horrors of the French Revolution. Devoted to her inconstant husband, her own wish and dream - how ever incongruous with the times she lived in - was, according to the Prussian Envoy, Podewils, who watched her closely, de faire un m�nage bourgeois. Witness, in this connection, the charming incidents attending the coronation of Francis, related by Goethe from family hearsay. The young Queen of Hungary, as she still was then, takes ship at Aschaf fenburg to join her husband at Frankfort, while he. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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