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Metternich

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Met·ter·nich  (mtr-nk, -n), Prince Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar von 1773-1859.
Austrian politician who helped form the Quadruple Alliance that ultimately defeated Napoleon I.
Metternich (German) [ˈmɛtərnɪç]
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(Biographies / Metternich, Klemens (1773-1859) M, Austrian, POLITICS: statesman) Klemens (ˈkleːməns). 1773-1859, Austrian statesman. He became foreign minister (1809) and made a significant contribution to the Congress of Vienna (1815). From 1821 to 1848 he was both foreign minister and chancellor of Austria and is noted for his defence of autocracy in Europe
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Noun1.MetternichMetternich - Austrian statesman (1773-1859)      
Klemens Metternich, Prince Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar von Metternich


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All the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.
The Communist Manifesto by Marx, Karl & Engles, Frederick View in context
Consequently, it would only have been necessary for Metternich, Rumyantsev, or Talleyrand, between a levee and an evening party, to have taken proper pains and written a more adroit note, or for Napoleon to have written to Alexander: "My respected Brother, I consent to restore the duchy to the Duke of Oldenburg"- and there would have been no war.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
Do not do anything of the sort; for were the gentleman a Montmorency, and the diplomatist a Metternich, we will breakfast at eleven; in the meantime, follow Debray's example, and take a glass of sherry and a biscuit.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
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