#also if anybody knows some cool trivia about the congress of vienna you are more than welcome to share it in the reblogs!

[ciderbird]

Sorry if this request bothers you but where are you reading stuff about the Congress of Vienna? I heard it's really chaotic there XO

Or maybe you could update us some interesting parts that happened in the Congress. I would appreciate it a lot! Thank you for answering 💗

It’s no bother at all! And to be honest, I myself need to read up on the Congress of Vienna because I only encountered bits and pieces about it in different memoirs and I know the timeline very loosely. But to give you a brief overview: five major European powers got together to discuss the future of the continent in the post-Napoleonic world and it went about as well as you’d expect. The meetings lasted for 9 months, interspersed with entertainment, intrigue, infidelity, personal drama, and interrupted by Napoleon himself returning from exile, at which point the participants decided to finally get their shit together. It effectively set up a new system in Europe, centered around preserving old monarchies and protecting the balance of the great powers.

But, of course, the numerous love affairs and anecdotes from the period is what makes up most of my personal interest (also Napoleon just straight up sending Alexander the letters between Talleyrand and Metternich plotting a secret anti-russian alliance and Alexander calmly showing it to them got to be one of my favorite moments)

I can’t recommend something definitive to read, as my own knowledge is really fragmented, but this book by Adam Zamoyski is a pretty good start