The legacy of Prince Clemens von Metternich (1773–1859), the Austrian foreign minister from 1809 and also chancellor from 1821 until 1848, has been a hotly debated issue among historians for decades.

METTERMCH—H. du Coudray—Yale University. Press ($4.00). In the period after the Napoleonic Wars, Prince Metternich of Austria became an almost legendary figure as the great defender of absolute ...

Early in the morning of March 7, 1815, a dispatch arrived at the bedroom of Klemens von Metternich, the Austrian foreign minister. Exhausted - meetings had kept him up till 3 a.m. the night before - ...

Despite its weaknesses, the Habsburg Empire under Metternich succeeded in obtaining a strategically and politically advantageous position in the run-up to the last war with Napoleon. In April 2013, ...

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The Habsburg Empire that dominated Central Europe from the Middle Ages until its collapse after World War I has long been seen as a byword for sclerosis and governmental ineptitude. Yet a recent wave ...

Many figures in history have spawned an “ism” or an “era.” Clemens von Metternich is one of the few who have had a whole “system” named for them. For more than 30 years after the end of the Napoleonic ...

On June 26, 1813, Austrian Foreign Minister Klemens von Metternich went to meet Napoleon Bonaparte at his headquarters in Dresden, in the Kingdom of Saxony. Although the French emperor still dominated ...

On September 9, 1814, Prince Metternich, the Austrian Foreign Minister, boasted to his wife: 'When I arrived in Vienna yesterday, I found all Europe assembled in my antechamber.' This was the ...

In a recent piece for Carnegie Europe, the Dutch journalist, Caroline de Gruyter, dismissively titled her essay “Austrian Acrobatics in Europe” outlining what she describes as the “ultrapragmatist” ...