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In 1814 France’s future form of government was determined by an unholy alliance of the Great Powers who defeated Napoleon and the emperor’s former officials, some of whom had been republican in the 1790s. Why it was that a republic was not contemplated? To what extent was the opposition to the restored Bourbon monarchy which developed subsequently republican in character?
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Pilbeam, P.M. (1995). Conspirators and Parliamentarians: Republicans 1814–1830. In: Republicanism in Nineteenth-Century France, 1814–1871. European Studies Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23860-6_4
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