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The Congress of Vienna
The great powers redraw Europe and keep the peace for forty years
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The congress is the textbook case of a realist peace: no loser was humiliated, and France was brought back into the system. The comparison with Versailles in 1919 is a standing one in the field. The price was the suppression of national and liberal movements, which produced the revolutionary wave of 1848.
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After Napoleon the great powers met to redraw the map of Europe. They restored the kings and tried to create a balance of power. The system prevented another general European war for nearly a century.
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