02 December 2020

High Holy Day

As you may have perhaps noted, today is a double high holy day for us monarchists: the anniversary of Napoleon's coronation in 1804 and Franz Josef's accession to the Austrian throne in 1848. Happy Holiday!

--- The "Vivat" from Napoleon's coronation, which became the unofficial imperial anthem.
 

 
 
--- "Gott Erhalte Franz Den Kaiser," the Habsburg imperial anthem, written by Haydn long before anyone thought of that Prussian abomination they called the German Empire.


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