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Congress Of Vienna's Decisions Essay

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Napoleon positioned heavy artillery on top of the roofs of buildings and struck shots into the crowds of people. 1400 loyalists were found dead. Napoleon stepped up to the plate and saved Paris. The minister of the war at that time gave him a job which he also didn't want so he refused. He was then given a infantry brigade to take control. He didn't take that job either. He wanted to stay with the artillery and was sent on a no paying job because he chose to. The Congress of Vienna’s decisions affected France in both positive and negative ways, so to answer whether or not “France as a whole” would feel the decisions were fair, is not easy to answer. I think it would depend on what side of the line those asked fell on. Since there were representatives from all of the five “great powers”, as they were called, being Russia, Prussia, Austria, Great Britain, and France, making the …show more content…

It is understandable that some of the other countries still felt the threats leveled by Napoleon’s rule, and wanted to make sure the power was balanced within all the 5 countries. One of the most influential of the representatives was the foreign minister of Austria, Prince Klemens von Metternich. Metternich was suspicious of the democratic ideals of the French Revolution. A good number of European aristocrats, including von Metternich, believed that Napoleon’s actions had been an expected result of experiments with democracy. Desiring to keep things as they were, Metternich stated, “The first and greatest concern for the immense majority of every nation is the stability of laws—never their change.” He had three main goals at the Congress of Vienna. First and foremost, he wanted to avert future French hostility by surrounding France with strong countries. Secondly, he knew a balance of power must be restored so that no one country would be a threat to any of the others. Third, it was his desire to restore Europe’s royal families to the thrones they had held before Napoleon’s

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