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back the clock to 1789 and restore Europe’s Old Regime  \n• Members included the “Big Four” and France  \n– Austria – Prince Metternich  \n– England – Duke of Wellington and Lord Castlereagh  \n– France – Talleyrand  \n– Prussia – Frederick William III, Hardenberg, and Humboldt  \n– Russia – Tsar Alexander I     \n Metternich (1773-1859)   \n• Opposed democracy and nationalism  \n• Proposed principles of compensation and  \nlegitimacy  \nCompensation and Legitimacy  \n• Compensation  \n– Napoleon’s enemies rewarded with land  \n– Other nations compensated for land taken  \n– Redrew the map of Europe  \n• Legitimacy  \n– Restoration of pre-Napoleon rulers  \n– House of Bourbon – France, Spain, and the two Sicilies  \n– House of Braganza – Portugal  \n– House of Orange – Netherlands  \n– House of Savoy – Sardinia  \n– German princes – territories in the Confederation of the Rhine  \n– Pope and Catholic Church – Papal States  \n Territorial Changes • Austria gained Lombardy, Modena, Parma, Tuscany, and Venetia (all are areas in Italy)  \n• England gained Cape Colony, Ceylon, Heligoland, Guiana, and Malta (areas in Africa, the Americas, and Asia)  \n• Holland gained Austrian Netherlands (Belgium)  \n• Prussia gained part of Poland, land along the  \nRhine River, 40% of Saxony, Swedish Pomerania, and Westphalia  \n• Russia gained Finland and part of Poland  \n• Sweden gained Norway  \n Fate of Nationalism   \n• People had no say over territorial changes  \n• Language, nationality, and religion weren’t taken into consideration  \n• Ideas of democracy and self-government were rejected by European leadership  \n• Soon enough, concessions were made  \n Louis XVIII of France   \n• No more divine right of kings  \n• Charter (Constitution) granted in 1814  \n• Could not restore feudalism and serfdom  \n• Continuing religious toleration guaranteed  \n Buffer States   \n• Designed to prevent France from again becoming a threat  \n• Holland and Sardinia enlarged and strengthened  \n• European nations guaranteed Switzerland’s neutrality  \n Quadruple and Holy Alliances   \n• Metternich desired to maintain the status quo and make the Vienna treaties permanent  \n• Quadruple Alliance of 1815  \n– Austria, England, Prussia, and Russia  \n– France joined in 1818  \n– Pledged to put down democratic or nationalistic revolts  \n• Holy Alliance  \n– Organized by Tsar Alexander I of Russia  \n– Most European monarchs joined  \n– Pledged to govern with charity, justice, and peace  \n• But none of them did so  \n Results of the Congress of Vienna   \n• Concert of Europe – group of leading nations which periodically met to discuss issues regarding stability  \n• Temporary suppression of democratic and nationalistic ideals  \n• International peace – no general war in Europe until World War I a hundred years later  \n– Crimean War (1854-1856)  \n– Austro-Prussian War (1866)  \n– Franco-Prussian War 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