French History of the 19th century
There were numerous events at the turn of the nineteenth century. They can be best characterized as the French Revolution, Napoleon's reign, and the Congress of Vienna. The French Revolution consisted of the numerous revolts of the Third Estate against the monarch, Louis XVI. Napoleon's reign consisted of numerous conquests, totaling in most of Europe, and ending in a few tragic errors and miscalculations on his part that would cause him the throne. The Congress of Vienna was a one-year convention in Vienna, Austria, amongst leaders of European empires who gathered in an attempt to reorganize and restructure the European continent. I strongly believe that these events did not meet the goals of the French Revolution set by the people of France. During the late 1700s, France's people were divided into three so-called Estates, First being the clergy, Second the noblemen, and Third, making up 97 percent of the total French population, the lower-middle and lower class. These social rankings hereditarily, meaning one could not move around them, at least higher up the scale. Some of the members of the Third Estate, everyone but the artisans and peasants also belonged to a group known as the bourgeoisie, or the middle class. This gro
During his reign, Napoleon caused a major chaos in Europe. Something had to be done about it. The Congress of Vienna attempted to play that role. Prince Klemens von Metternich gathered major rulers of Europe: Russia's Czar Alexander I, Great Britain's Lord Robert Castlereagh, as well as Prince Maurice de Talleyrand representing France at that time. Metternich served as a host in an 1814 convention in Vienna, Austria. His beliefs on this matter were based on the following principles: compensation, legitimacy, and balance of power. Compensation meant that France should repay every European country it fought the expenses for the war. Legitimacy was defined as the return of absolute monarchs to each kingdom. Finally balance of power implied that no country shall have too much power in Europe so that event's similar to the Napoleonic France will not repeat themselves. Some of the major issues discussed and resolved there were France's punishment, the division of new borders, the reestablishment of rulers, and enforcing new policies of the Congress of Vienna. France was punished in three major aspects. First of all, it had to gradually repay every country it fought expenses for the war. Second, it would lose all land it gained under Napoleon's conquest and return its territory to that of 1790. Lastly, it will reestablish a monarchy. The borders were redrawn so that each country received a fair portion of land, as well as established buffer states, or neutral territories around France. King Louis XVIII took the throne as the king of France and the rest would be appointed by hereditary methods. Forming alliances enforced these new policies. The Quadruple Alliance, consisting of Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, Russia, and later France, served the purpose of was to preserve the boundaries, to prevent Napoleon or his heirs from ever acquiring French rule, and stop any revolutionary movements from taking hold of Europe. Another alliance, Holy Alliance, included Russia, Prussia, and Austria, and encouraged the rulers to act as a union of monarchs. Both of these alliances provided European nations a chance to work togeth
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