Identifier: historyofallnati17wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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e battlefielil of .Teua.In remarkable contrast to the want of regard which he daily manifestedto sovereign printcs was the distinction with which he treated the heroes(if (iernian literature. On October 2, (Toetlie was invited to an audience;ths emperor discoursed with him upon tragic poetry and criticised thesorrows of Werther; with the aged Wicland he spoke of Tacitus andChrist. While the two emperors outwardly exhibited the greatest intimacy,and appeared to commit disagreeable atlairs to their ministers, .Vlexander,in truth, was filled with the deepest distrust of his ally. The man whosought most eagerly to confirm liim in his resistance to Napoleons jiiaiiswas none other than Talleyrand. This sharp-sighted politician jicreeivedthat a government which depended only upon success in hazardous liireignenterprises cannot last; he began to separate the cause of l^ramc finmthat of Na)>oleon ; the interest of the former in his o;)iniiin demanded I hat NAPOLEON AT ERFURT AND WEIMAR. 103
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X S J S 104 THE AWAKENING OF THE PEOPLES. the powers still capable of opposition sliould nvt tocjctiicr in order toestablish a barrier to Napoleons insatiable ambition. With the view oifrustratinj^ the arrangements which Alexander and Napoleon nii<;litdevise with regard to a partition of Tnrkey, he hud sougiit to iiyhice theP)mperor Francis to make his j)ersonal ajipearance at Erfnrt. Mean-while, not the partition of Turkey, but simply its postponement, was thatwhich Napoleon endeavored to render agreeable to his ally ; he desiredthe acquisition of the Dannbian ))rincipalities by Russia to be delayeduntil having finished with Spain he could wrest from Alexander againthe price of the Erfurt Treaty, and furthermore by means of noisy peacenegotiations with England could shake the confidence of tlu^ Spaniardswith regard to English assistance. But Alexantler penetrated his i)ur-pose and thwarted the delay by his No. By the treaty concludedlietween them on October 12, the Tilsit alliance

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