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Portrait of Emperor Franz Josef I, 1879Vintage Video: Emperor Franz Josef I, 1914
 Updated - Saturday, 22 November, 2003

Emperor Franz Josef I reigned as Austro-Hungarian monarch from 1848 until his death in 1916, by which time the Austro-Hungarian empire was fast crumbling.

Indeed by the time of his passing he knew that Austria-Hungary's fate was almost certainly doomed. With the war lost two years later - with Karl I as Emperor - the empire rapidly dissolved.

Click here to view film footage of Franz Josef taken before the First World War began in 1914 (Windows Media, 19 seconds, 241KB).

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