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| | HighBeam Encyclopedia - Talleyrand, Charles Maurice de (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | Convinced of the necessity of a strong Austria to maintain European stability, Talleyrand, who accompanied Napoleon to the Congress of Erfurt (1808), secretly worked in Austria's rather than Napoleon's interest by persuading the Russian Czar Alexander I to oppose Napoleon's designs against Austria. |
 | | He represented France at the Congress of Vienna (see Vienna, Congress of) of 1814-15, where he scored his greatest diplomatic triumphs. |
 | | Winning the European powers to his principle of "legitimacy," namely, the restoration of Europe to its prerevolutionary status, and shrewdly exploiting the dissension among the allies, he succeeded in taking part in the negotiations on equal terms with the principal victorious powers. |
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