NOUN
- emperor of Austria and king of Hungary; was defeated by Napoleon III at the battle of Magenta (1830-1916)
How To Use Franz Joseph In A Sentence
- The efforts of the Emperor Franz Joseph and the ruling elite to divert attention from their country's increasingly threadbare imperial pretensions furnished Musil with comic material galore.
- Speaking as someone whose grandmothers were both born the subjects of actual ruling monarchs (Kaiser Wilhelm II and Emperor Franz Joseph) of functioning industrialized powers, the notion that European kingship was dependent on state religion or that either were the primary impediment to modernism is dubious in the extreme, and the bit about the priesthood is in Dan Brown territory. Matthew Yglesias » George Orwell Was a Socialist
