Then the author put something inside which made me laugh  - a welcomed thing in these readings - with myself. 

"The new of his [Napoleon] death was reported in London on 4th July but it was overshadowed by Britain's public's interest in what would happen at the forthcoming coronation, from which the new King, George IV, had banned his unruly Queen. It was said that when the messenger announced the fallen Emperor [Napoleon]'s death with the words: 'Sire! I have to tell you that your greatest enemy is dead!' the King replied: 'NO! By God! Is she?'.

"...by which time most of the players of [the Congress of] Vienna had long been dead. The first to go (die) had been Castlereagh. (he committed suicide)The next was Hardenbern, who exerted himself with a new mistress during the Congress of Verona and succumbed to pneumonia shortly after...Capodistrias, who had become President of the newly independent Greece, was assassinated in 1831. Gentz died in 1832, in the middle of a last fling with a ballerina".

-Adam Zamoyski

Men. Nothing changes over the times. 

*shakes head* 

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