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“Talleyrand was in a black mood. All that he had achieved over the past eighteen months had been destroyed: the bloodless and amiable return of the Bourbons in 1814 was being travestied by the vindictive and mean minded 2nd Restoration. The favorable conditions obtained for France by the Treaty of Paris in 1814 were to be revised and the equal status he had worked so hard to attain for her in Vienna was no more.”

That was Zamoyski on Talleyrand, not Duff Cooper. There is another reality, when you add the dimension of time. Over 3 years the terms against France lightened considerably. France’s financial infrastructure finally, finally, finally 3 times finally caught up the to greatness of the country., to its weight in the world. And after those 3 years, yeah France was a great power.

And once the Bourbon was overthrown in 1830, Soult began the process of creating a new overseas empire. And Europe finally got rid of that hive of scum and villainy, the slave taking corsairs of the Barbary Coast. It wasn’t just the triumph of civilization, however temporary over ancient horror slave states like the north African statelets. It was finally blocking the Russians from expanding in that area, which they were constantly proposing to do under the Christian duty to fight slavery and the other horrors of north Africa.