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Metternich 's Repression:

For thirty years after the congress of Vienna, Prince Metternich, Chief minister of Austria, influenced Europe so strongly that the time is sometimes known as the Age of Metternich.

Metternich's Views:

1, was a reactionary
2, believed that absolute monarchy was the only good government
3, looked with fear at liberalism + constitutions + freedom of speech, the press and religion.
4, believed the best way to handle such ideas was to suppress them completely.

Metternich's Aims:
1, to prevent revolution
2, to preserve absolutism

Austria under Metternich:

1, set up an efficient system of secret police to spy on revolutionaries
2, liberals were imprisoned , fined or exiled

Metternich's hold On German Confederation:

He was able to persuade the rulers of most german states to adopt the same methods.
Hapsburg rule in northern Italy made sure that no revolutionary movements would succeed there.

FRANCE:
In France Louis XVIII was quite willing to join in suppressing revolutions at other places.

Metternich's role in Concert Of Europe:

He turned the Concert of Europe into an instrument for suppressing liberal ideas and revolutions everywhere in Europe.

Representatives of the five powers gathered to discuss whenever there was a threat to the status quo.

Austria , Russia and Prussia went further: agreed to act together to defeat attempt at revolutions anywhere.

On this last step Great Britain could not agreed. It did not want to interfere where liberal popular movements were attempting to defeat absolute rulers. three reasons for this: Britain itself had representative government +british people sympathised with other people in their struggles for similar governments + meddling with other countries was not good for british commerce.

PS:I am not satisfied with my effort. Please do read Page 127-145 of David Thomson's Europe Since Napoleon.