You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. 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 ...
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You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. 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 ...
1808 Talleyrand, Goethe and the Congress of Erfurt
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1808 Talleyrand, Goethe and the Congress of Erfurt
You can send me a text if you have a comment or question Talleyrand represents a strand of the ancient regime, the old nobility that thrives and leads, right through the monstrosity and glory of Empire and the Reaction that follows. Goethe is the literary Talleyrand, the carefully controlled spark of Romanticism, that could be said to spring into flame when Germany is born. Talleyrand's career spans the Ancien Regime, Revolution and the Empire and the Restoration and the July Monarchy t...
Hanging with History
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. 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 ...