The Congress of Vienna, begun in September 1814 and concluded in June 1815, was unique, an unprecedented Pan-European conference that laid the foundations for the post-Napoleonic age. It was also ...

Rites Of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna by Adam Zamoyski. By SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE. Last updated at 17:45 16 April 2007 ...

Vienna 1814: How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made Love, War, and Peace at the Congress of Vienna David King. Harmony, $27.50 (434pp) ISBN 978-0-307-33716-0 ...

Long Read'Making peace' (1/6). Le Monde explores how the wars that marked Europe's history over the last 200 years came to an end, starting with the Congress of Vienna, which concluded the ...

But the greatest triumph of the Congress of Vienna was a return to a balance of power and a European continental peace that lasted for 100 years, till the start of WWI in 1914.

Vienna as an international capital is a city that has been a pivot for diplomacy, culture, intellectual thought, music, art, design, and architecture for hundreds of years. One century later, the ...

THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA (312 pp.)—Harold Nicolson—Harcourt, Brace ($4). The retreat from Moscow was over; in a room at Fontainebleau, the defeated Emperor Napoleon meditated suicide.

The OSCE, like the Congress of Vienna before it, ... Finally, Napoleon invaded Russia, reaching Moscow before he was forced to retreat and meet his ultimate defeat at Waterloo on June 18, 1815.

THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA. Share full article. April 29, 1883. ... and if Napoleon's return from Elba had not deprived France of her title to maintain her frontiers of 1792 under the treaty of Paris ...