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“As a huntsman, he [Franz Ferdinand] was indiscriminate in his targets, bagging two elephants and a tiger in India and Sri Lanka, flamingos in Egypt, kangaroos and a duck-billed platypus in Australia, and even his own cat.”

To quote Bugs Bunny: What a Nimrod.

“Maria Theresa ordered recidivist prostitution to be deported to Hungary, where as one wag put it, ‘they can only debauch Turks and infidels.’”

“She [Maria Christina, daughter of Empress Maria Theresa] may not have understood it [her and her sister-in-law’s relationship] to be sexual, but her letters to Isabella are unequivocal in respect to their physical relations- ‘I love you furiously and yearn to kiss you… to kiss and be kissed by you… I kiss your arch-angelic little bum.’ And so forth.”

“Joseph II governed in the same way he had sex - energetically and with such unrestrained that he looked forward to periods of abstemiousness in the countryside, ‘because there the choice was between ugly peasants and falconers’ wives.’”

I’m so obsessed with the Habsburgs and the Habsburgs empire no one gets it

“…the civil servant and dramatist Franz Grillparzer summed up one of his days [in the Habsburg civil service]: ‘Into the office at noon. Found nothing to do. Read Thucydides.’”

Plus ça change…