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Picture No 10000966
Date 10 September 1898
Description Death of Austrian Empress on Lake Geneva
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Elisabeth of Bavaria, Empress of Austria (1837-1898), dies after being stabbed in the heart by the Italian anarchist Luigi Lucheni on Lake Geneva, Switzerland. Lucheni said afterwards: I wanted to kill a royal -- it did not matter which one.
Source Atamian in Je sais tout January 1907 page 617
Credit Mary Evans Picture Library
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