text:  Meanwhile in the year 1805 he had returned from France to his own Germany--alas then about to be _one_ Germany no more! And while the sun of Austerlitz was rising brightly on the then Emperor of France and soon to be protector of the Rhine the future secretary of the Archduke Charles and literary evangelist of Prince Metternich was prostrating himself before the three holy kings and swearing fealty to the shade of Charlemagne in Catholic Cologne