'The Congress dances, but it does not move forward,' went the joke about the Congress of Vienna: while diplomats spent months carving up post-Napoleonic Europe, Vienna went from ball to ball.

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• Congress of Vienna1814–1815 · Vienna. From September 1814 to June 1815 the European powers, led by Metternich, Alexander I, Castlereagh and Talleyrand, negotiated the post-war order. The Congress restored monarchies, created the German Confederation and a Kingdom of Poland under the Russian emperor, and founded the “Concert of Europe” that kept the continent from a general war until 1914.

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