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 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, ...

According to historian Thierry Lentz, author of Le Congrès de Vienne ("The Congress of Vienna"), "almost 100,000 foreigners stayed in Vienna at one time or another between summer 1814 and late ...

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 ...