In What Ways And To What Extent Did The Aims And Policies Of The Great Powers In The Vienna Settlement Shape Europe Until 1852?
The Congress of Vienna attempted to set Europe straight following the disruption caused by French Revolution and the subsequent Napoleonic imperialism within Europe itself. All European powers of any considerable size were invited to participate, including "defeated" France. Mercurial French statesman Talleyrand, priest, revolutionary, official under Napoleon, and in all regards a powerful representative of the French nation, was given a serious role at the Congress. Austrian minister Prince Clemens von Metternich played the key role in Vienna. His conservative (perhaps reactionary) actions and views made him the dominant European continental spokesmen of post-French Revolutionary conservatism. Irishman and British parliamentary figure Edmund Burke was the leading representative of English conservatism in this epoch. Among other things, conservatives sought to ease European imperialist competition in Europe itself.
The delegates at the Congress of Vienna (1814 - 1815) were......
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