METTERNICH SYSTEM …OR… ERA OF METTERNICH PRINCE KLEMENS WENZEL VON METTERNICH BORN IN COBLENZ, GERMANY IN 15 MAY 1773 STUDIED AT STRASBURG AND MAINZ AUSTRIAN FOREIGN MINISTER IN 1809 DOMINATED EUROPEAN POLITICS FROM 1814 TO 1848 RESTORER OF THE OLD REGIME AND THE RECONSTRUCTION OF EUROPE AFTER THE NAPOLEONIC WARS AFTER THE FALL OF THE IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT IN 1848, HE FLED TO ENGLAND DIED IN VIENNA ON 11 JUNE 1859
METTERNICH SYSTEM …OR… ERA OF METTERNICH CONGRESS OF VIENNA 1814-1815 (RESTORATION, LEGITIMACY AND COMPENSATION) CREATING BALANCE OF POWER PRESERVE THE STATUS QUO SNUFF OUT SPARKS OF REVOLUTION AND LIBERALISM PRESERVING THE EUROPEAN ORDER POSSESSING POWER OF MONARCHY MAINTAINING STABILITY BY CONVINCING THE GREAT POWERS