ABSTRACT
In the first half of the nineteenth century, there were more similarities than differences in the possibilities for women's political agency, and the responses to that agency across the European continent. This chapter examines the nineteenth-century diplomacy and international politics, namely the peace-making process that brought to an end to Napoleon's sway over Europe, often referred to simply as the Congress of Vienna. The defining event in nineteenth-century diplomacy and international politics, namely the peace-making process that brought to an end Napoleon's sway over Europe, often referred to simply as the Congress of Vienna. It also tackles the representation and recovery of women in the history of diplomacy in the first half of the nineteenth century through the lives of two exceptional women: Germaine de Stael and Dorothea Lieven. History remembers Germaine de Stael as an author and salonniere with extraordinary intellectual, political and cultural capacities and influence.
