Vienna 1814: How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made Love, War, and Peace at the Congress of Vienna David King. Harmony, $27.50 (434pp) ISBN 978-0-307-33716-0 ...

Early in the morning of March 7, 1815, a dispatch arrived at the bedroom of Klemens von Metternich, the Austrian foreign minister. Exhausted - meetings had kept him up till 3 a.m. the night before ...

The Congress of Vienna, begun in September 1814 and concluded in June 1815, was unique, an unprecedented Pan-European conference that laid the foundations for the post-Napoleonic age. It was also ...

The congress was meant to take a few weeks to tidy things up, but lasted for nine months and turned into "the greatest and most lavish party in history," according to David King, author of Vienna ...

Two hundred years ago, on September 25, 1814, Russia’s Czar Alexander I and Friedrich Wilhelm III, the King of Prussia, were greeted at the gates of Vienna by Austria’s Emperor Franz I.

THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA. Share full article. April 29, 1883. ... return from Elba had not deprived France of her title to maintain her frontiers of 1792 under the treaty of Paris of 1814, ...

When did the process of international organization start? It was not in 1945 nor in 1919. Rather, it was the Congress of Vienna (1814-15) that proved to be the relevant turning point in history ...

Excitement is building in Vienna ahead of the 60th annual Eurovision Song Contest later this week. Last year’s winner, Conchita Wurst, can be seen on billboards around the city, a bearded ...

The Congress of Vienna convened heads of European states in 1814 to settle many of the issues that arose after a series of destabilizing events: the French Revolution, the dissolution of the Holy ...