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Historical person
1837–1898
Empress Elisabeth of Austria, widely known as Sisi, was the wife of Emperor Franz Joseph I. Celebrated for her beauty and unconventional habits, she resisted court ceremony, travelled extensively, sympathised with Hungary and was assassinated by an Italian anarchist in Geneva in 1898.
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.
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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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