Five-time NBA champion Kobe Bryant joined
Metternich and Art of Sport co-founder Brian Lee, as a founding partner.
Key Words:
Metternich, Conservative Europhilia, Populism
Metternich will be recalled to Germany, censured for his efforts to save French culture, undergo denazification (helped by a good word from Jaujard), and receive the French Legion of Honor.
Prussia was represented by its king, Friedrich Wilhelm III; Russia by Tsar Alexander; Britain by its foreign minister, Lord Castlereagh; and Austria, by its chancellor, Klemens von
Metternich. Most of these men, it is true, were monarchists who saw republicanism as a highly destabilizing form of government--not an unreasonable conclusion to draw, perhaps, from recent French experimentation.
As Prince
Metternich made clear, he was striving to create "a dam to resist the torrent of revolutions." The continental monarchs often justified their hold on power in religious terms.
He was an apprentice to the chef of Prince Wenzel von
Metternich, the father of modern diplomacy, in 1832.
Franz Joseph ruled Austria as part of the Habsburg dynasty from 1848-1916, and Owens details the events that preceded and occurred during his reign, including the previous rulers in the dynasty, the upheavals in Central Europe as laboring classes fought against their imperial occupiers, the role of Austria's prime minister
Metternich, the history of the conquerors Napoleon and Bismarck, the Crimean War, and the beginning of World War I.
Klemens von
Metternich famously said when France sneezes, Europe catches a cold.
German statesman Prince Klemens von
Metternich apparently understood money but refused to explain it to anyone.
It does not need a
Metternich, Nietzsche, Talleyrand or a Huntington to tell us that both these concepts (and hence these two countries) deep down (AND axiomatically!) negate peaceful and equitable co-existence, in real terms, with the non-Islamic and the non-Chinese world.