1. Bellwork 1/8/16
Using the second paragraph on page 465, where it says “the outburst against,” answer the question below in at least five sentences (a full paragraph):
What was the “abstract reason” that the Romantics burst out against? Why would the Romantic era feel a need to “search for order”? (Explain the Enlightenment- religion and politics- along with the French Revolution and Napoleon)

2. Notes 1/8/16 People to remember of the “Long 19th Century”
The First Duke of Wellington
Military genius
Prime Minister
Defeated Napoleon at Waterloo
Defensive style
Could defeat numerically superior forces
Minimize his own losses

4. Count Metternich Foreign Minister of the Austrian Empire
Negotiator at the Congress of Vienna
Formed “Metternich System”
International Congresses
Powers work together to form
consensus rather than fight
Turn back clock to 1789
Treaties that caused WWI

5. Talleyrand “Prince of Diplomats” Prime Minister of France
Survived, and served
Louis XVI
several gvts of the Fr. Rev.
Napoleon
Louis XVIII
Charles X
Louis-Philippe
Slippery traitor or useful diplomat?
At the Congress of Vienna

7. The Work of Mind-and-Heart
After:
Napoleon exiled
France occupied
Kings regain power
Congress of Vienna
= 2 tasks for Europe:
Contain revolution
Reconstruct culture
Romantic movements become the spirit of the age
Against abstract reason (Enlightenment)
Search for order (after an age of revolutions and an upstart emperor)