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Title: Elizabeth, empress of Austria and queen of Hungary;
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Küchler, Carl Gottlieb Friedrich, 1869- Upton, George P. (George Putnam), 1834-1919
Subjects: Elisabeth, Empress, consort of Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria, 1837-1898
Publisher: Chicago, A. C. McClurg & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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shown the courage of a heroine,but after her wonderful self-control had given way,the reaction was terrible and her despair heart-breaking. I have no longer the strength to livenor the desire to die/ she said. It was reportedin Berlin that her reason was destroved, nor wouldit have been surprising if this had been the caseafter such a shock. Of course it was not true, butshe did begin to develop symptoms of a seriousheart trouble from which she suffered until herdeath. She never wished to see the Crown PrincessStephanie again, nor could she endure the presenceof the little Archduchess Elizabeth, the grand-child who had inherited her fathers nature with thefeatures of a mother to whose behavior the Em-press attributed the changes in Rudolfs way oflife and his tragic fate. She shrank from contactwith people more and more and often woundedher husband and children by her craving for soli-tude. Even her favorite palace of Lainz failed to attract her for more than a few weeks, while at(122)
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E MPRESS ELIZABETHIK later years 13 DEATH OF RUDOLF 8S Godolio the roses drooped and faded and thegrass grew thick upon her once-loved bridlepaths. On the Christmas Eve following the death of theCrown Prince, her mothers fifty-second birthday,the Archduchess Marie Valerie was betrothed toher cousin Franz Salvator, Duke of Tuscany, anevent that was a cause of happiness and satisfactionto all concerned. Next to her parents blessingshe was anxious to have that of her grandmother,and the day after Christmas accordingly she left forMunich, accompanied by her mother and her lover.Duke Max had died in 1888, shortly after the dia-mond wedding celebration at Possenhoffen, but theDuchess Ludovica, though bowed with age andmany sorrows, had lost none of her mental acute-ness and the meeting between the old lady and herdaughter and granddaughter was most touching.From there they went to Wiesbaden and Heidel-berg, where they spent the spring months. Asthey were returning to Vienna, they narrowly e

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