During the 1820s, Clavin, Claudia and their ghoul, Jeanette Montclair traveled several times to the Americas and back into Europe. It was a tremendously enjoyable time spending so much time together with his progeny. But Clavin heeded his earlier instructions and made arrangements to meet with Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in Belgium in 1830. And of no small note, Jeanette was being educated in the ways of the kindred and the Masquerade to become Clavin's second progeny later. Clavin embraced Jeanette in 1822 after she had fallen in love him. He was also in love with her. Truth of it was that he adored her and she him without any clamoring at all. His relationship with Jeanette at this time had grown into full fledge love and was no longer hidden from other Kindred. Clavin had several retainers bring money and other items to Jeanette's husband and informed him that Jeanette had fallen overboard during the voyage back from the Americas and become lost to him. After Clavin and the human Prince's discussions, Prince Leopold made his way to London, England to attend a European political conference being held that year. At the London Conference of 1830-31, European powers recognized Belgian independence from the Netherlands, and Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha is crowned king of the Belgians as Leopold I. This was a tremendous boon to the Kindred of the region, as they now had an area that was theirs.

During the height of its power by 1850, the Düsseldorf Kunstakademie expansion in the heart of German learning was rivaling those of Paris. Clavin and his entourage thoroughly sated their hungers upon the many attending students who had traveled from all of Europe and abroad. In 1855, Clavin sold his Berlin manor and many of his attachments thereon, and moved to London, England. You see he had some insight to the goings-on within the political powers of Prussia. There was a storm on the horizon and it would change the landscape of politics in Prussia. His instructions from the Parisian Methuselah had been quite clear and he had been following them ere since.

Clavin had made inroads to meet with a promising politician of the Prussian constitutional monarchy, Otto von Bismark. He was a widely respected land owner and aristocrat who many believed would bring the German states to become a world power like Britain, France and the United States of America. Clavin used his considerable contacts and resources to help bring Bismark into power in 1862 in the office of minister-president of Prussia. This office represented the King of Prussia in all aspects. After declaring that there wouldn't be any further parliamentary consideration in the affairs of government, Bismark turned his attention towards Austria.

After the war with Austria and its settlement in 1867 a new constitution and federal parliament was established by Bismark to promote the power of the crown and the nobility. The Bundesrat formed the upper house and represented the princes of various states, and the Reichstag, elected by direct manhood suffrage, formed the lower and representing others. The chancellor was to be appointed by the king. Parliament could not dismiss the chancellor nor withhold money from the government, and the king became president of the federation.

With this success, the middleclass businessmen and politician were delighted. "I was very happy that the plans and preparations that were given to me by Dubois were coming to fruition. And it didn't hurt that my holdings and accounts were now swelling with profits."

"The extension of Prussian power with its victory against Austria in 1866 was ominous to Napoleon III. I carefully laid ideas and instructions to Bismarck on a showdown against French power. We needed to complete the unification of Germany and that a war against France would arouse a nationalistic fervor in the independent states of southern Germany that would swing these states toward favoring unification with Prussia."

"I knew that France was opposed to a relative of the King of Prussia, Wilhelm von Hohenzollern (Wilhelm I) becoming king of Spain. Bismarck managed to make the French feel insulted, and on July 19, 1870, wishing to teach Prussia a lesson, France declared war. Napoleon III appeared to be the aggressor. Austria would not join France against Prussia. Britain, Russia and Italy remained neutral. And believing that France was the aggressor, the south Germans sided with their fellow Germans to the north, just as had been laid out before me by Dubois."

"To be honest, I was unsure if Prussia could be the superior force here. I knew that over the years the military was superbly organized and well trained. Railways crisscrossed the German states like a spider's web, so mobility was assured. And since I had planted the seed of information and assisted with financial backing of the telegraph to Bismark, Prussia had a superior communication system in place."

"But to my great delight the Germans defeated the French and captured Napoleon neigh at the beginning. I thoroughly enjoyed roaming the battlefield that night. There where so many wounded and dying, what a feast! Many of my new army came from that night, I was able to pick and choose."

Although much of the world changed around Clavin and his entourage during the last 40 years of the 19th century, the troupe stayed mostly out of contact with world issues. Clavin, Claudia and Jeanette coordinated business opportunities in the new German Empire. During those changes great wealth was created for the Von Heuler troupe.