Brothers Bulano, the bouncing Bavarians.

Franconians in southern Germany disliked the fact that the Napoleonic Wars subjected them to Bavarian rule they saw German nationalism as a way to use Prussia and Berlin as a counterweight to Munich s hegemony.

Wagner himself wrote letters to the mad Bavarian King Ludwig about the corruption of finance (though bankers remuneration at the time was not comparable with the handouts that Wagner received from the King).