Metternich the autobiography

  • This fascinating autobiography covers Metternich's early years from his school days in Strasbourg and his meteoric rise in the service of Austria to the defeat.
  • Metternich's memoirs were not truly memoirs, but, like many so-called memoirs of the era, a collection of letters, diaries and other documents.
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    Metternich: The Autobiography, 1773-1815

    Throughout Prince Metternich's glittering and successful career he sought to free Europe from the forces unleashed by the French Revolution. He was an enemy of change, despised by republicans and feared by radicals. Metternich's acute skill for diplomacy was instrumental in creating alliances to reverse dangerous republicanism and restore Europe's legitimate monarchies to their thrones.



    This fascinating autobiography covers Metternich's early years from his school days in Strasbourg and his meteoric rise in the service of Austria to the defeat of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna in 1815. Metternich was at the heart of Europe's diplomatic community and he paints revealing portraits of such key figures as Napoleon, Czar Alexander, Talleyrand and the Bourbons. He also reveals much about the political life of a continent convulsed by the French Revolution and by the ambition of the Emperor Napoleon.



    Metternich's observant eye and

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    Metternich: The Autobiography, 1773-1815

    December 19, 2019
    Constructed out of three separate works by Metternich's son, this autobiography runs up to 1815 and the Congress of Vienna. Parts of it were written in the 1840s, the editing took place thirty years later, it seems fair to assume that the way that events worked out shaped how and what is recalled here. The translation is an old one but, apart from the phonetic rendering of Mainz as Mayence which confused me for a while, the tone seemed appropriate.

    Metternich served as Austria's foreign minister from 1809 to 1848 when he felt it incumbent upon han själv to depart rapidly and seek a change of air in Britain after pronounced vocalisations indicative of intense disapprobation by various strata of the Vienna public against him and his policies. All of the separate parts of the autobiography were written some time after the events described but before the the 1848 revolutions. Metternich apparently regarded the events of 1848 as a

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    Metternich: the Autobiography, 1773 - 1815

     

    Metternich, Clemens, Furst von. Metternich: The Autobiography, 1773-1815. Welwyn Garden City, UK: Ravenhall, 2004. 265 pages. ISBN# 1905043015. Softcover. $24.95.

    Out of print in English since the 1970s, Ravenhall Books has published a welcomed new edition of Metternich's Autobiography in an inexpensive paperback edition. Based on three separate biographical extracts from Metternich's Nachgelassenen and originally edited bygd Metternich's son, Metternich's memoirs were not truly memoirs, but, like many so-called "memoirs" of the era, a collection of letters, diaries and other documents. Prince Richard Metternich, in presenting the Memoirs, wrote, somewhat hopefully perhaps, "now that more than a generation has passed over his quiet tomb, the image of the resolute defender of conservative principles appears still more imposing, and his own words will enable men to realize the power and charm of his c

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