Word: metternich
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...laughed at great men. Yet there was no greater man in public life anywhere when he died. Napoleon, Metternich, Wellington, Peel-he had sent flowers to a thousand notable graves. Gladstone and Disraeli-because he lived, they had to wait. And Bismarck had just begun. The last light of the 18th Century flashed in Palmerston's eyes-eyes which, shaded by a white silk hat, were too weak to catch any glimpse of the 20th Century...
...husband. France had detested him also. He once rendered Tannhäuser at the Grand Opera in Paris. He had rehearsed 164 times. Mesdames, seigneurs, laced perfumed lords chitchatted, watched the composer's rotund drab figure squirm in his seat. Wagner's back itched. Princes? Metternich nodded, smiled, as from the orchestra swelled forth great chords, low symphony. Wagner sat tense-slumped down aghast, ashamed at whistles, catcalls, boos, hisses. Princess Metternich sobbed. Wagner went to Vienna, since Germany had exiled him. Again, Prince Metternich, please. . . Tristan und Isolde was accepted, rehearsed 57 times, abandoned-the tenor...
...years of age and is the step-daughter of Count Julius Andrassy, last Foreign Minister of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and a granddaughter of the famous Count Julius, who was the greatest Minister of State that the Monarchy had had since the passing of Metternich...
Omnipotent Metternich scurrying ignominously to England...
...great Napoleon Buonaparte was made Consul for life, that thin edge of the wedge that was to secure for him the designation "Emperor of the French" and much legendary glory. It was the epoch immediately preceding that in which the spectre of the die-hard Austrian Chancellor, Prince Metternich, was to stalk eerily throughout Europe, scattering all but good, honest supporters of the Holy Alliance...