Congress of Vienna
“A gilded reception hall in Vienna, autumn 1814. Metternich, Talleyrand, Castlereagh, and Tsar Alexander I move among delegates and dancers. Foreground shows a quartet playing as ambassadors confer over maps of Europe; midground reveals ladies in empire-waist gowns waltzing under chandeliers; through high windows the Hofburg gardens glow in lamp-lit dusk.”
