Talk:Age of Metternich

I'm no reactionary but I think "tragic" is somewhat unencyclopedic in this context. Also the uprisings were nationalistic as well as democratic. Plus this is my article, I OWN IT!- Moshe Constantine Hassan Al-Silverburg | Talk 23:24, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

I am not a scholar in this field, but I am interested in it, which is why I am reading about it. From other reading, I have this to contribute if the author would like to integrate it. From Schubert’s Vienna, Erickson, R. (ed.) 1991. p.18 - Metternich became foreign minister - for the next 40 yrs. He married off Francis's daughter to Napoleon, who provided him with an heir the following year, 1811. But Nap did not lighten Austria's obligations under the Treaty of Schonbrunn, the value of its currency dropped by 80%. Life in V was hard. Ruhe und Ordnung became the motto of the second half of Francis' reign. lasting at least until 1848. p.21 - (Metternich's need) to suppress revolution immediately so as to preserve the status quo. Thus the ubiquity and omnipresence of police surveillance and hard suppression. Vienna was cloaked in an atmosphere of political suppression and suspicion. p.22 - Francis died in 1853, but the suppression last till 1848. J27325 (talk) 22:13, 27 June 2009 (UTC)