![]() I foresaw the event I have combated it consistently during a ministry of well-nigh forty years. To-day once more my conscience impels me as a duty to lay before your Imperial Majesty the expression of my profound gratitude for the sympathy which I believe that I have merited on your part, and of which during the whole course of your Majesty’s glorious reign you have deigned to give me so many proofs.Įurope, sire, is involved in a crisis which much exceeds the bounds of political movements. ![]() ![]() Your Imperial Majesty has always deigned to honor me with that form of esteem which has the highest value in my eyes, namely, confidence in my principles and such encouragement as the upright man should seek in his own conscience. Sire, the most invincible of forces, that of circumstances, has put an end to my long political life. The Revolution of 1848 in Germany and Italy In this letter, Prince Metternich, who had served as Austria’s foreign minister for nearly forty years, describes events in Vienna to the King of Austria. After 1848, the socialist challenge had to be taken seriously. The economic and social changes had a dramatic political impact at the midpoint of the 19 th century. The revolutionary uprisings that swept across the European continent in 1848 sent shock-waves through the monarchies. Nd_055 Metternich on the Revolutions of 1848
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