![]() Austria retained Galicia, and Prussia regained Poznan and Torun, and also acquired part of Saxony and more of the Rhineland. The Final Act of June 4, 1815, drawn up by Metternich's mentor, Friedrich Gentz, reflected this spirit of compromise. By January 1815 Alexander was ready to compromise, an attitude strengthened by Napoleon's temporary return to power in March. In London, however, he frightened the British with plans to reunite the ethnic Polish lands as his own separate kingdom.Īt Vienna, the British, Austrians, and French thwarted this scheme, which was supported by a Prussia bent on annexing all of Saxony. Alexander also helped block a Prussian scheme to frustrate France and Austrian designs on Switzerland and Piedmont-Sardinia, but supported the attachment of Belgium to the Netherlands and part of the Rhineland to Prussia as checks on French power. ![]() The Treaty of Chaumont established the Quadruple Alliance to contain France, while the first Treaty of Paris restored the French monarchy. Tsar Alexander I directed the Russians, aided and influenced by his diverse multi-national coterie of assistants: Count Andreas Razumovsky, who was ambassador to Austria the Westphalian Graf Karl Robert von Nesselrode, who served as a quasi-foreign minister the Corfu Greek Count Io ánnis Ant ónios Kapodstrias the Corsican Count Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo the Prussian Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein the Alsatian Anstedt and the Pole Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski.Īt the peak of his influence in early 1814, Alexander directed the non-punitive occupation of Paris and the exile of Napoleon I to Elba. The chief representatives included Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereigh of Britain his ally, Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar von Metternich of Austria F ürst Karl August von Hardenberg of Prussia and Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-P érigord, Prince de B én évent of France. Negotiations took place in France from February to April of 1814, in London during June of that year, in Vienna from September 1814 to June 1815, and then again in Paris from July to November of 1815. The Vienna Congress provided the conclusion to the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. ![]()
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