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| | TIME.com: Viennese Waltz -- Oct. 21, 1974 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria ruled the Austro-Hungarian Empire for 68 years, succumbing at last at age 86, two years after the start of World War I. When Franz Joseph succeeded to its command, the Habsburg holdings included Milan and Venice, Prague and Cracow, as well as Vienna and Budapest. |
 | | Though she married Franz Joseph when she was only 16 and gave him a son and three daughters, she played a lonely second fiddle to Franz Joseph's imperious mother Sophie. |
 | | While she fluttered through Europe, he would rise before dawn to be at his royal desk by 5 or 6 in the morning, as absorbed in the minutiae of bureaucracy as a clerk in a tax office. |
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