Bányai Balázs - Kovács Eleonóra (szer.): A"Zichy-expedíció"- Szent István Király Múzeum közleményei. A. sorozat 48. (Székesfehérvár, 2013)
The "Zichy Expedition"
JENŐ ZICHY, THE POLITICIAN 2O9 The entrance to the exhibition, 1879, Vasárnapi Újság than what they finally realized.'30 However, the majority deemed the exhibition a success and gave it credit for starting nationwide industrialization in the next decades. The town leadership, who cooperated with the Count for the exhibition’s success, thought the same: it made Zichy an honorary citizen of the town and named the park on the northern border of the town center after him.’3' The exhibition also showed that Székesfehér needed to modernize its infrastructure in order to facilitate industrial development and to make the daily life of the citizens more comfortable. JENŐ ZICHY, THE POLITICIAN The political career of Jenő Zichy began in 1861, a period full of changes in particular in the European power structure. Hungary closely monitored the unification of Italy and the reactions to it by the French and the Austrians. Austria was now weaker than at the time of the Hungarian anti-Habsburg revolution in 1848-49. It consequently tried to consolidate its presence in Hungary with the so-called “October Diploma’’ and the “February Patent” in the face of
