Blog category: Clemens von Metternich
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Clemens von Metternich: The man who outwitted Napoleon?
February 28, 2014
As Austrian foreign minister from 1809 to 1848, Clemens von Metternich was a major player in European affairs for twice as long as Napoleon Bonaparte. A closet admirer of the French Emperor, he was concerned to show himself as the man who had outwitted him.
We must confess that fate, which sports with man, makes merry work with the affairs of this world.
Napoleon Bonaparte