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Historical person
1830–1916
Franz Joseph I was emperor of Austria from 1848 and king of Hungary after the creation of Austria-Hungary in 1867. His long reign encompassed revolution, military defeats, constitutional compromise, nationalist conflict and the July Crisis that led to the First World War.
In Gary Jennings’s Spangle: The Center Ring, the tour places the company in the newly created Kingdom of Italy and at the court of Franz Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth of Austria.
Series
Spangle follows Florian’s Flourishing Florilegium of Wonders from the devastated American South at the end of the Civil War to the courts, capitals and battlefields of Europe. Former Confederate colonel Zachary Edge and veteran Obie Yount join a struggling travelling circus whose performers become a surrogate family. As…
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