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Tables of Contents for The Final Act
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xi
LONDON, Spring 1814
3
60
The Dover Road
3
2
The Allied Sovereigns enter
5
2
An insane and patriotic King
7
3
A European Prince Regent
10
3
The women in his life: Caroline and Charlotte
13
2
The politics of a drawing room
15
5
Divine inspiration: the Tsar and his sister
20
5
Catherine, imperial herald
25
3
The Liberator steps ashore
28
3
London lights up
31
8
Castlereagh's lonely journey
39
4
Pitt's engine, Castlereagh's peace
43
5
How the Belgic provinces were liberated
48
2
A royal jilt
50
3
The Sovereigns depart
53
4
Equilibrium
57
1
Fireworks
57
6
PARIS, Summer 1814
63
62
The engine is turned
63
6
Forced moderation at Paris
69
4
Talleyrand applies for an alliance
73
5
Wellington inspects the plains
78
7
What Wellington saw in Paris
85
5
Cross-Channel travellers
90
3
Old Paris, new Paris, dirty Paris, Paris
93
8
The capitulation of March
101
9
Talleyrand's leg
110
7
August conversations
117
4
Monseigneur at Ferrieres
121
4
VIENNA, Autumn 1814
125
88
Isolated diplomats
125
2
The German Revolution
127
5
The Minoritenplatz
132
2
Vienna receives Europe's delegates
134
8
Kaiser Franz and the Second Reich
142
7
Metternich's migration and conversion to Europe
149
8
Metternich's women
157
8
Talleyrand's women
165
5
The Big Four
170
7
Veni, vidi, vici: Alexander's arrival
177
6
The first offensive
183
1
Talleyrand inserts a wedge
184
5
Castlereagh finds his centre
189
2
Ballroom manners, bedroom discord
191
12
Hardenberg moves, Castlereagh responds
203
2
A battle remembered
205
2
Rupture
207
24
VIENNA, Winter 1814-1815
213
44
Prussia defects
213
2
Castlereagh loses his centre
215
5
Metternich turns
220
3
"Europe without distances"
223
3
The hunt
226
1
Saxon souls
227
3
Beethoven and horses
230
6
Advent
236
1
Metternich's offensive
237
4
A Christmas crisis
241
4
Gift-giving
245
2
1815: a new year, a new treaty
247
1
Castlereagh's departure
248
4
Whither Bonaparte?
252
5
ELBA and PARIS, Winter 1814-1815
257
74
Napoleon's choice
257
4
Elbans and Englishmen
261
5
A simple man, an imperial man
266
6
Winter in Elba
272
3
The discontented French
275
7
New Year in Paris
282
4
A telegraph
286
2
Flight of the Eagle
288
3
Flight of the King
291
5
Vienna and la vindicte publique
296
7
London's "Week of Wonders"
303
4
Whitbread's ail
307
5
Imperial chaos
312
11
The Field of May
323
8
WATERLOO, Spring 1815
331
58
Golgotha
331
4
Royal Ghent
335
4
The army of Belgium
339
9
London declares war
348
4
Vienna's Final Act
352
12
The Duchess's ball
364
4
Roads to Waterloo
368
3
The wind of panic
371
4
Eye of the storm
375
7
False cheer
382
7
PARIS, Summer 1815
389
46
Mrs Boehm's dinner
389
5
Whitbread's devils
394
3
Wellington's web
397
6
The Court of France
403
6
The Elect of God
409
3
Heidelberg
412
4
The Siege
416
10
The King's entry
426
9
EUROPE, EUROPE
435
30
Napoleon's Europe
435
4
Alexander's Europe
439
5
Metternich's Europe
444
3
Castlereagh's Europe
447
8
The end of the beginning
455
10
Appendix A: Maps
465
5
Appendix B: The major states and provinces of Europe 1814-1815
470
2
Appendix C: Chronology
472
3
Notes
475
40
Bibliography
515
10
Illustration Credits
525
2
Index
527