Hanging with History

1813 Austria, Metternich and Francis II


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Of the large political entities in Europe in 1813 the Austrian empire was one of the oddest, from a modern perspective and possibly the most vulnerable.

It was really the personal realm of the house of Habsburg.  I’ve talked a lot about it in the past assuming a great deal of background knowledge on the part of the listener, so let’s fill in some of that while we discuss how this legitimate power, gave into fear and threw in its lot in with the French Revolutuon.  And behaved thoroughly inconsistently until the guiding hand of Count and Later Prince Klemens Wencelas Lothar von Metternich was appointed in 1809 to guide Emperor Francis 2nd’s foreign policy. 

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Hanging with HistoryBy Harald Hansen

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