Haugwitz

And I don't believe a single word of Hardenberg or of Haugwitz. 6 Cette fameuse neutralité prussienne, ce n'est qu'un piège.

'War and Peace' 2007

Left to themselves, the King and his new Chief Minister, Haugwitz, might have been prepared to condone any French action in the pursuit of a quiet life, but the new party at Court rapidly gained influence.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

YOU WILL TELL M. de Haugwitz to wait for me at Vienna,1 wrote Napoleon to his Foreign Minister Talleyrand, shortly after the battle of Austerlitz.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

In the event, however, Haugwitz never succeeded in delivering his message to Napoleon.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

Although he was granted a long audience at Brünn on November 28, the Emperor was careful to do most of the talking, and Haugwitz found himself dismissed and referred to the charming but even more elusive attentions of Talleyrand at Vienna before the main point of his mission had been mentioned.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

Sent by his master to Vienna at the end of November, Haugwitz had originally been the bearer of a virtual ultimatum, only thinly disguised as an offer of mediation between the warring parties.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

In the event, however, Haugwitz never succeeded in delivering his message to Napoleon.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

These were hard terms, but the hapless Haugwitz could offer no effective defense.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

So as to emphasize his scorn for the vacillating Frederick William, the Emperor deliberately refused to see Haugwitz again until December 15, keeping the envoy lingering in the anterooms of Imperial Headquarters at Vienna day after day.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

The neutralist Haugwitz was dismissed from office, and the patriot Hardenberg partially restored to favor, assuming control of foreign affairs.

THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966