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 | | This sparkling narrative, interweaving high level, inner-circle gossip with firm scholarship invites us to share in the goings-on-amorous and political-at the 1815 Congress of Vienna, that extraordinary convocation that followed Napoleon Bonaparte"s abdication. |
 | | Despite incessant skirmishings among the victors-Tsar Alexander, Austria"s Metternich, and Castlereagh, the British foreign secretary (with France"s agile Talleyrand lobbying them all)- the Congress fixed the map of Europe and the balance of power for a hundred years. |
 | | But what endows this story of great events with endless fascination are the uninhibited sexual intrigues in which so many peerless statesmen, monarchs, and princes were perpetually engaged. |
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