Impatient to take his revenge on Bismarck for Sadowa, he persuaded Francis Joseph to accept the Magyar demands which he had till then rejected. [...] Beust deluded himself that he could rebuild both the [Germanic Federation] and the Holy Roman Empire and negotiated the "Ausgleich" as a necessary preliminary for the "revanche" on Prussia. [...] As a compromise with Hungary for the purposes of "revanche" on Prussia, the "Ausgleich" could not be otherwise than a surrender to the Magyar oligarchy."