Lecture:  Congress of Vienna and Restoration Europe

Review of Previous Lecture

Outline

First Peace of Paris

The Players

            Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh

            Klemens, Fürst von Metternich

            Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand

            Czar Alexander I

The French question

The Polish question

The Rhineland

Second Peace of Paris

“Congress Europe”

Holy Alliance

Domestic unrest in Europe

            Britain:  “Peterloo” massacre; Six Acts

            The German Confederation:  the Carlsbad Decrees

            France:  Louis XVIII vs. republicans, Bonapartists, ultras

Revolts of 1820

            Spain

            Portugal

            Italy

Greek revolt

            “Massacre at Chios” by Eugene Delacroix

William Cobbett | August Kotzebue | Karl Follen | Karl Sand | Wartburg festival | Burschenschaften | “Father” Friedrich Jahn | Charbonnerie | Alexander Ypsilantis | Lord George Gordon Byron | Percy Bysshe Shelley |