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7. The FAMOUS and INFAMOUS - The Meter Stamp Society

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<strong>7.</strong>1 POLITICAL FIGURES<br />

Emperor Franz Josef of Austria 1848-1917 all but destroyed a poor marriage to<br />

the Empress Elizabeth by giving her ‘an unmentionable disease’ probably gonorrhea.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Young Phil<strong>and</strong>erer<br />

<strong>The</strong> Lonely Old Emperor<br />

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<strong>The</strong> Empress spent far more time at the Castle<br />

Palace Varpalota in Budapest than she ever<br />

did with the Emperor at the Hofburg in Vienna.<br />

Kaiser Friedrich III of Germany became syphilitic when, as crown prince, he participated in the celebrations at the<br />

opening of the Suez Canal in 1869; died after a 93 day reign from bronchio-pneumonia <strong>and</strong> throat cancer in 1888.

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