A German Catholic Priest and Jesuit was teaching a class on the ''Holy Roman Empire'', known joke.
''Before the class begins, you must get on your knees and worship the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation as the greatest Empire known to man, even greater than the Imperivm Romanvm of Octavian Augustus!''
At this moment a brave, patriotic, French, philosopher and historian who had spent 1500 hours thinking up funny quips and completely understood the necessity of Enlightenment and fully supported all military decisions made by Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden stood up and held a map of central Europe.
''How many states are depicted on this map, hypocrite?''
The arrogant professor smirked quite teutonically and smugly replied ''One, the great Holy Roman Empire, you stupid frog!''
''Wrong. There's like, almost 2000 different duchies and bishoprics and counties and principalities which are, obviously, independent...if it was one empire as you say...then the principle of 'cuius regio, eius religio'...would never have come to pass!''
The professor was visibly shaken, and dropped his chalk and copy of the bible. He stormed out of the room crying those Hapsburg crocodile tears. The same tears inbreds cry for Charles II (whose jaw is so big he can't chew) when they jealously try to steal justly earned lands through marriage and inheritance. There is no doubt that at this point our professor, Hans Müller, wished he had accepted Enlightenment and become more than the pope's castrato. He wished so much that his worldview was based on reason but he himself had rejected it!
The students applauded destroyed their copies of the Imperial Regalia. An eagle named “Byzantium” flew into the room and perched atop the Prussian Flag and shed a tear on the chalk. The ''Rights of Man'' was recited several times, and Candide himself showed up and cultivated his own Garden.
The professor lost his tenure and was guillotined the next day
P.S. It wasn't Roman or Holy either