by Adam Palmer (Author)
As a man Metternich emerges as very different from the austere figure of popular imagination. Worldly, urbane and witty, he was a connoisseur of good living and enjoyed a sequence of scandalous love affairs and as much at home in Paris as Vienna.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 416
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 14 Apr 1997
ISBN 10: 1857998685
ISBN 13: 9781857998689
Book Overview: * Readable account written by a popular historian * Many of the distinctive features of today's diplomacy were shapped by Metternich