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Thus the congress which the public treaty charged with making the new arrangements was to be composed of all the powers which had taken part in the war, a description that primarily included France and her seven allied antagonists, known collectively at the congress as the eight powers. Strictly the description would also have included the sovereigns who, as the wave of reconquest passed westward, had abandoned VII.] THE POLITICAL INEQUALITY OF STATES. 95 the fortunes of Napoleon or been restor...ed before the close of the war on the principle of legitimacy ; and in fact all Europe was represented at Vienna except Turkey and the principalities dependent on her, but although the other states had to sign the particular arrangements which concerned them, the general act of the congress was prepared for signature only by the eight and was signed only by seven of them. By the secret articles however the five great powers, including France, pledged the congress in advance of its meeting to a large part of the settlement ; and when the plenipotentiaries were assembled, it appeared that the four great powers other than France under- stood that they alone, as the allied powers mentioned in the first secret article, were to decree the rest of the settlement.
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