01:510:381 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: April Laws, Lajos Kossuth, Klemens Von Metternich
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1848 = springtime of nations things are waking up after a long time of being dormant and things will bloom (how nationalists saw their cause) Note: image metaphor of woman mobilizing/inspiring/waking people up ( liberty leading the people french revolution image) Austrian prince klemens von metternich sought to make europe safe from revolution (put toothpaste back in the tube): declared: France would be ruled by a monarch (after the revolution) Create alliance with monarchs (prussia, russia and austrian. Empires) to guarantee peace and anti-revolution: reading on him: His use of the word evil described what revolutions are. Evil as in against god: they reject the divine right of kings (god"s will) Disorderly in terms of ideas (change/upheaval results in chaos) says having these ideas are bad. P. 216 a revolution prepared by the false system, the fatal errors the evil which threatens to presumption .