Rites of Peace
Zamoyski, Adam![Rites of Peace](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/193/19332811/CHSBZCOP0319332811.jpg)
Following Napoleon's defeat and exile in 1814, the future of the European continent hung in the balance. Eager to negotiate a lasting, workable peace, representatives of Britain, Austria, Prussia, and Russia—along with a host of lesser nations—gathered in Vienna for an eight-month-long political carnival, combining negotiations with balls, tournaments, picnics, artistic performances, and other sundry forms of entertainment for the thousands of...