Vienna was full; full of Kings, Princes, Royalties and nobles from every country in Europe; the crowded diplomatic staffs of the Allied Powers, attachés, equerries, secretaries, and spies and adventurers of both sexes. All fashionable European society poured into Vienna to watch the great world powers settling affairs, and to see men as famous as Alexander of Russia, Metternich and Talleyrand at close quarters. Talleyrand was again Minister for Foreign Affairs, entrusted with the task of saving what he could for his defeated country by a King who disliked him and made the appointment to get him out of the Court. The Russians and Prussians were united in their demands. Poland for Russia and Saxony for Prussia. Metternich and Castlereagh listened to these proposals and then decided they could have no better ally against the ambitions of their former allies than the Foreign Minister of France. Talleyrand made the utmost of the jealousy and dissension growing up between Austria and England and the bitter Autocrat of Russia, who was soon backing his demands with threats of war in language which was a warning echo of Napoleon.
