Vienna Hofburg - Imperial Apartments, Sisi Museum, Silver Collection

Here the emperor stood to receive people who had sought an audience with him, and would initiate the conversation himself. On the standing desk lay the audience schedule which listed the people who had been given an appointment for an audience as well as the reason they had come. Here one could introduce oneself to the emperor, thank him for an honour, plead for clemency for oneself or one’s relatives, or present a private matter. Since Franz Joseph received up to a hundred persons in one morning these audiences usually lasted only a few minutes. The emperor ended the audience by inclining his head slightly.www.hofburg-wien.at | Download Tour-Guide (PDF)© by Schloß Schönbrunn Kultur- und Betriebsges.m.b.H.