Norwich bulletin., 1916-12-05
THE WAR PRIMER By National Geographic Society

Schondrunn.-Less than three miles southwest of the Ring -Strasses, which surrounds the inner city of Vienna, is the impressive pile of masonry known as Schonbrunn, where some of the most dramatic episodes in the history of Austria have been staged and whcre only a few days ago the sorrow stricK- en Emperor Francis Joseph'S death brought to a close a phenomenal reign of 68 years. A National Geographic so- ciety bulletin of the war geography series gives the following description of the royal summer residence and some of the episodes which have had g regal setting there:
 With its more than 1,4o0 rooms, Schonbrunn isa splendid example of imperial residence modelled on the standard of the great palace at Ver- ties of this home Of Austria's royal family, however, is that instead of croWning an eminence it is built on low ground, while the magnificent park of nearly\500 acres occupies the high ground, rising gradually from the palace doors until it terminates on a hill adorned with beautiful colonade called the Gloriette.
 Three important events on tl1eAN poleon1c era were staged in the irnpe- rial apartments of Schonbrunn. The first was the treaty of 1905, signed
 
 latter acting for the king of Prussia. By this document Napoleon inflicted a humiliating defeat to the Prussian statesman, who agreed to surrender Gloves ,Ansbach and Neuchatel to France in exchange for Hanover. whereas he had come to see the en- peror for the express purpose of de- liver nultimatum demanding a re- turn of Hanover. In the same year December 27) Napoleon issued the proclamation of Schonbrunn in which the Bourbon dynasty in Naples was declared at, an end.
 -Four years after Haugwitzs -lurnil- tation second treaty of Schonbrunn was signed, the principals this time being Napoleon and Francis l. the Austrian emperor who less than a year later was to become the father-in-law of the 'upstart Corsican'
 On this occasion the emperor oe the French again drove hard bargain, but this time his antagonist had no al- formative flor the Austrian army had just sustained the crushing defeat at Wagram. The vanquished nation was forced to give up Salzzurg, a portion of Upper Austria, and extensive territory in Carinthia, Carniola, Croatia and along the Adriatic seaboard. In addi- tion Francis was compelled to reiin- quish that share of the booty which had fallen to Austria in the third dis memberment of Poland Q795).
 "One of the most pathetic scenes ever witnessed within the walls of thi spalace, erected by Maria Theresa, was the final hour in the life of the unhappy Due de Reichstadt, son of Napoleon and the Austrian archdueh- ess Marie Louise. The EagIet, as he was called, was just 21 when he died pied by his fl1ustrious father on one of tuberculosis in a room once occu- or the occasions when he held Schon- brunn as his military headquarters. perhaps too highly colored and historically warped but superbly ap- pealing picture of this heathbed has been given to the world by the dis tinguished poet@nlaywright of France, Edmond Rostand, in his widely known drama of IAiglon.
 Schonbrunn stands on the site of a hunting lodge built in 1870 and en- larged in the following century when It received the present name af.er beautiful fountain which adorned the grounds. During the Turkish invest men tof 1883 the lodge was destroyed bpt a new building was begun thir- teen years later. The palace assumed its present imposing outlines during the reign of Maria Theresa and her son, Emperor Francis Joseph II.
 One of the novel features of Schon- brunn is its amazing number of kitch- ans-129."