See also:

• METSU, GABRIEL (1630—1667)

The same principles of See also:

• LIGHT

Metternich was a See also:

• WITNESS
• WITNESS (from O. Eng. witan, to know)

In See also:

• JANUARY

His intimacy with Talley-See also:

• RAND

The conference, however, dragged on without result, and the emperor Francis decided to open negotiations with Napoleon See also:

• DIRECT

Early in 18ro See also:

• EUROPE

Prince Metternich himself, who had acted as foreign secretary during his son's See also:

• ABSENCE (Lat. absentia)

It was characteristic of Metternich's diplomacy that the Austrian generals in Galicia were ordered to act only on the defensive, and that the court of St Petersburg was informed that Austria would only take part in the war as a See also:

• PRINCIPAL

In an interview with the emperor Alexander, Metternich now presented the terms which he proposed to offer to Napoleon, and on this basis a treaty between Austria, Russia and Prussia was agreed to, Austria contracting to put 150,000 men into the field, should Napoleon reject the ultimatum, and not to make peace without the consent of Russia and Prussia—which in effect involved that of Great Britain also. Before this second treaty of Reichenbach was signed (June 27), Metternich went on See also:

• MARET

29) and See also:

• OUDINOT, CHARLES NICOLAS (1767-1847)

4, 1813), contained no such offer of acceptable terms; but Metternich's object was attained; for Napoleon refused to be See also:

• DRAWN

If in the See also:

• ITALIAN

This, too, gives the See also:

• KEY
• KEY (in O. Eng. tang; the ultimate origin of the word is unknown; it appears only in Old Frisian kei of other Teutonic languages; until the end of the 17th century the pronunciation was kay, as in other words in O. Eng. ending in aeg; cf. daeg, day; clang
• KEY (the phraseograms being indicated by hyphens)
• KEY, SIR ASTLEY COOPER (1821-1888)
• KEY, THOMAS HEWITT (1799-1875)

Austria. Gordon. Jan.—Dec., 1819.) Metternich's power, after all, was limited by the See also:

• GOODWILL

Behind the agitations of the " sects " loomed the figures of the emperor Alexander and of his confidant See also:

• CAPO

The outlook in Europe at the beginning of 1819 seemed to ' Sir Robert Gordon (1791—1847), See also:

• BROTHER

The ills of Spain were " material," those of Europe at large " moral"; and the European Alliance was there to See also:

• DEAL

This opened up the whole Eastern Question in the precise form that Metternich had sought to avoid; for the action of Great Britain involved a move on the part of Russia, jealous of her See also:

• PRESTIGE

He was even the first to recognize the revolutionary government of Louis Philippe (See also:

• SEPT

The Straits Convention of 1841, by which France was formally readmitted to the concert, was due largely to IVIetternich's initiative; so, too, was the ill-judged effort of the continental Powers in 1847 to interfere in favour of the Sonderbund in See also:

• SWITZERLAND

Probably no statesman of all time has, in his own day, been more beslavered with praise and bespattered with abuse than Metternich. By one side he was reverenced as the infallible See also:

• ORACLE (Lat. oraculum, from ora' to pray; the corresponding Greek word is uavreiov or Xpnuri7pwov)

But, as Demelitsch points out, it will be time for Austrians to condemn him when Austria shall have survived half a century of constitutional experiment under the dual monarchy. Of the technique of diplomacy Metternich was a master. His despatches are See also:

• MODELS

His second wife, Baroness Antonie von Leykam, Countess von Beilstein, died in 1829; his third wife, Melanie, Countess Zichy-Ferraris, died on the 3rd of March 1854. Of his sons three survived him: See also:

• RICHARD
• RICHARD (d. 1184)
• RICHARD, FRANCOIS MARIE BENJAMIN (18,9-1908)
• RICHARD, HENRY (1812-1888)
• RICHARD, ST

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