A Peace Congress of Intrigue (Vienna, 1815)

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Excerpt from A Peace Congress of Intrigue (Vienna, 1815): A Vivid, Intimate Account of the Congress of Vienna, Composed of the Personal Memoirs of Its Important Participants Versailles. Vienna was a congress of princes and arbitrary rulers. The hereditary overlords de cided according to their aims and ambitions, in a spirit Of greed and selfishness. Its story need not be told by those Of us who view its results in the perspective of one hundred years. It has been set down in no uncertain fashion by the men and women who took part in its negotiations and in its gay social life - in diaries and memoirs that disclose only too well their belief that the people existed only to be trafficked in. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.