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Distinguished Women of Past and Present
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Empress Elizabeth of Austria
(1837-1898)
ELIZABETH, Amelie Eugenie (1837-98), An Empress of Austria, wife of
Francis Joseph, Emperor of Austria-Hungary. She was the daughter of Duke
[in Bavaria] Maximilian Joseph. She was a remarkably beautiful and
intelligent woman, and spoke a number of languages. While on a visit to
Geneva she was assassinated by Luccheni, an Italian anarchist [Sept. 10,
1898], and died at her hotel a few minutes afterwards.
The New International Encyclopaedia, 1905