Maps, epochs, seers and saints -- Dukes and kings -- King foreigner and pater patriae -- Kingdom of heretics, or, Against all -- Recovery and Renaissance -- Rebellion and catastrophe -- Reform, revolution, and reaction -- The "springtime of nations" -- Viribus unitis -- Fin-de-siècle and empire's end -- An island of democracy? -- From one totalitarianism to another -- Victorious February and tragic August -- The gray years -- Velvet revolution to velvet divorce -- Alone at last.