Declaration of Pillnitz

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Harrison W. Mark
by Johann Heinrich Schmidt
published on 07 September 2022
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Meeting of European rulers at the Pillnitz Conference, famous for the Declaration of Pillnitz, which was issued on 27 August 1791 and threatened Revolutionary France with invasion. Depicted in the center are Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor on the left, Elector Frederick Augustus III of Saxony in the middle, and King Frederick William II of Prussia on the right. Painting by Johann Heinrich Schmidt, 1791.

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