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The Historical Development of Modern Europe, From the Congress of Vienna to the Present Time; 1815-1850
The Historical Development of Modern Europe From the Congress of Vienna to the Present Time 18151850 Author:Charles Mclean Andrews General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1899 Original Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Subjects: Europe History / Europe / General History / World History / Modern / 19th Century Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When yo... more »u buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. RECONSTRUCTION AND THE EUROPEAN SYSTEM. WITH the departure of Napoleon to Elba and the return of the Bourbons, France to all outward appearance was approaching the position she had occupied before the Revolution. The £migrts, led by the Count of Artois, who had been one of the first to leave France in the early days of the Revolution, were crowding back, and were taking their places once more in the state and the army ; the white cockade was already supplanting the tri-colour ; the territory of France was to be but little greater than it had been in the reign of Louis XVI., and a Bourbon king was once more to sit upon the throne of his ancestors. The work of the Revolution and of Napoleon would seem to have been undone ; each step in the outward expansion of the power of France from 1792 to 1812 had been retraced in the rapid retreat after the Moscow campaign. The political boundaries of the majority of the European states were to be restored as nearly as possible to what they had been before the Revolution; and in consequence, the face of Europe, politically distorted by Napoleonic conquest, was to take on a more familiar form. In France, save in the administrative, judicial, and financial organisation, apparently little trace of Napoleon's work remained. The Bourbons and the ltntgres, with no appreciation of the real work of the Revolution and the Empire, cast from them the memory of all recent events, and prepared to enjoy once more a r/gime of legiti...« less