FRANCIS JOSEPH.
The Emperor Francis Joseph, for whose birthday celebrations seventythree archdukes and archduchesses, gathered'at Isehl, is the only European Sovereign to keep up the mediaeval practice of granting private audiences to rich, and poor alike. The humblest inhabitant of the Empire' possesses the his Sovereign, into whose ears he can unburden himself, without the' pi'esence of any official or attendant. On Mondays and Tuesdays, when the Emperor is in Vienna, his antechamber .is filled with a motley throng, ranging from peasants, artisans, and small shopkeepers to cardinals, and. landed magnates. Alt these are. received in the order of .their" arrjyal, uo regard 'being paid f >{to" ,< rank, " so that great nobles often > Have to w'ait«their turn while a "workman or "a village pviest is closeted' with ,-the Em T peror. >< * " -
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10131, 6 January 1911, Page 4
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131FRANCIS JOSEPH. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10131, 6 January 1911, Page 4
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