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...singlehanded that he managed to forget completely that he had been Napoleon's ally-until Napoleon had invaded Russia. He sternly charged the King of Saxony (who had backed the wrong horse too long) with being "a traitor to the common cause." "That, Your Imperial Majesty," answered Talleyrand, "is a question of dates...
...Three, says Nicolson, their peacemaking would have been easier if the major powers alone were involved. Inevitable "nuisances,and . . . eccentrics" were present at the Congress of Vienna. Prussian Delegate Prince Hardenburg was stone-deaf. Spanish Delegate Don Pedro Gomez Labrador spent his time mimicking French Delegate Talleyrand. Thirty-two minor German royalties attended-and brought their wives, mistresses and secretaries of state...
...Congress of Vienna convenes in 1815 (though it looks suspiciously like the Foreign Ministers Conference in Paris, 1946). Wellington, Talleyrand and Alexander, Czar of all the Russias, are about to sit down to a game of cards with Austria's Metternich. Cries the Czar: "Austria play cards on an equal basis with the big powers? Impossible...
Among Professor Brinton's many historical works are: "English Political Thought in the Nineteenth Century," "A Decade of Revolution," "The Lives of Talleyrand," "The Anatomy of Revolution," and "Nietzsche." His most recent book is the first in a series on American foreign relations: "The United States and Britain...
...only knew they were with me and I with them. ... I sought less to teach [them] to spell, read and write than to make use of these exercises for the purpose of giving their minds as full and as varied a development as possible." In the end he succeeded. Talleyrand, Mme. de Staël and Robert Owen came to learn from Pestalozzi. Philosopher Fichte introduced Pestalozzi's progressive education to Germany, and there Horace Mann and Calvin Stowe picked it up, to bring...