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Originally published in German as Metternich: Stratege und Visionär, eine Biografie, by Wolfgang Siemann, revised edition 2017, copyright Verlag C. H. Beck oHG, München 2016. The translation of this work was funded by Geisteswissenschaften International -- Translation Funding for Humanities and Social Sciences from Germany, a joint initiative of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the German Federal Foreign Office, the collecting society VG Wort, and the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (German Publishers and Booksellers Association).