Luis Henrique

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he blamed the failure to agree proper rules. ‘As the congress was never defined, and the powers of its members were never determined according to any fixed and recognised principle, it drifted to the very last moment on a sea of uncertainties and contradictions,’ he explained. This drift favoured the great powers.
Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna
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