STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1805, sig. 109-5/33 (damaged)

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- 1 8S LeopoldsIT.g to the King of Bohemia 179l. The estates enforce it, because the coronation oath is first read inkex in Czech, then in German. These demonstrations continue. i793 the nobility in Prague introduces a peasant wedding in national costumes, in which only Czech can be spoken. These tendencies are interrupted by the French revival and Napoleonic period. Even under the reign of Frang II, it remains calm. But under the weak Ferdinand, the estates again gain their head. They resort to the aspirations of the nineties. In the Landtag, i842 the state of lords voted to the Count-in-Chief Chotek the mistrust. l844 the old handtag ceremonial is reintroduced. le45 by emperors demanded the maintenance of all the proficient pretences and privileges. When the emperor responds to the contemporaneous validity of the former reservations only to hold back the states to the extreme opposition. Again, as in the Josefine Aera, national-popular applications are now being decided in order to provide the stock ship with the favorable wind of public opinion. Thus, the application for the introduction of the Czech in schools is being submitted and on 30 May, the Czech Republic has been granted the status of a member. It is clear that the purpose of the law is to appear as the rights of the Land of Bohemia, domit as the "national". Thus we see the Bohemian nobility still against the middle of the 19th century. In the 19th century, a struggle against the modern state--- - l3 -