Czartoryski and European Unity, 1770-1861

xvii, 354 pp. "If we wish to progress we must have an object we have not yet attained. And in order to be always in progress we must be capable of conceiving an object which will never be attained." Czartoryski, 1803. "This biography of a 19th century Polish statesman provides a panorama of European history from the Great Diet in Warsaw and the St. Petersburg of Catherine the Great, to Victorian London, Napoleon III's Paris, and Francis Joseph's Vienna. Czartoryski had numerous dealings with such statesmen as Pit, Palmerston, Fox, and Diraeli.