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Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna

Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna

Zamoyski, Adam

Paperback

French HistoryGeneral Political ScienceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 006077519X
ISBN13: 9780060775193
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: Jun 24 2008
Pages: 672
Weight: 1.74
Height: 1.41 Width: 6.12 Depth: 8.66
Language: English

Following Napoleon's defeat and exile in 1814, the future of the European continent hung in the balance. Eager to negotiate a lasting, workable peace, representatives of Britain, Austria, Prussia, and Russia--along with a host of lesser nations--gathered in Vienna for an eight-month-long political carnival, combining negotiations with balls, tournaments, picnics, artistic performances, and other sundry forms of entertainment for the thousands of assembled aristocrats. While the Congress of Vienna resulted in an unprecedented level of European stability, the price of peace would be shockingly high, with many crucial questions ultimately decided on the battlefield or in squalid roadside cottages amid the vagaries of war.

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