CHAPTER XXVI

“Austria’s idiot Archdukes”—A _catalogue raisonné_—The Emperor’s brothers—The Archduke Rainer—The Archduke Henry and the actress—The Archduke Louis Salvator, the Hermit of the Balearic Islands—The Archduke Charles Salvator—The Archduke Joseph—The Archduke Eugène and his vow to be “as chaste as possible”—The Archduke William and his courtship in the _café_—The Archduke Leopold—The awful Archduke Otto and his manifold vagaries 272