Vivent les rois. (Europe's monarchies)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: July 15, 1989 | Copyright information

Vivent les rois On July 14, 1789 began the process which, in the name of the rights of man, was to depose a king and drench all France with blood. The result was an emperor who drenched most of Europe too. Today's monarchs are wiser than Louis, humbler than Napoleon--and doing very nicely

THE funeral of the ex-Empress Zita, widow of the last Austro-Hungarian emperor, on April 1st in Vienna was a right royal affair. "Gott Erhalte Franz den Kaiser" rang out through St Step...

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