5025 x 3363 px | 42,5 x 28,5 cm | 16,8 x 11,2 inches | 300dpi
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Congress of Vienna sitting of the plenipotentiaries of the eight powers who signed the treaty of paris 1815 from the painting by Isabey April 5 1856 The Illustrated London News Page 361 Congress of Vienna was a conference of ambassadors of European states, chaired by the Austrian statesman Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, and held in Vienna from September 1814 to June 9, 1815 Its objective was to redraw the continent's political map and settle many other issues arising from the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, and the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire. The immediate background was France's defeat and surrender in May, 1814, which brought an end to twenty-five years of almost continuous war. The negotiations continued despite a final outburst of fighting triggered by ex-Emperor Napoleon's dramatic return from exile and resumption of power in France during the Hundred Days in March-July, 1815. The Congress's "Final Act" was signed nine days before his final defeat at Waterloo on June 18, 1815. An unusual feature of the "Congress of Vienna" was that it was not properly a Congress: it never met in plenary session, and most of the discussions occurred in informal sessions among the Great Powers with limited participation by delegates from the lesser states. The Congress of Vienna settlement, despite later changes, formed the framework for European international politics until 1914.Wellington (UK) Joaquim Lobo da Silveira (Portugal) António Saldanha da Gama Portugal) Count Carl Löwenhielm (Sweden) Jean-Louis-Paul-François, 5th Duke of Noailles (France) Metternich (Austria) André Dupin (France) Count Karl Robert Nesselrode (Russia) Pedro de Sousa Holstein, 1st Count, 1st Marquess and 1st Duke de Palmela (Portugal) Castlereagh (UK) Emmerich Joseph, Duke of Dalberg (France) Ignaz Heinrich von Wessenberg (Confederation of the Rhine) Prince Andrey Kirillovich Razumovsky (Russia) Charles Stewart, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry (UK) Pedro Gómez Labrador, Marquis
