[[Image:Renoir Monet pintando en su jardín de Argenteuil.jpg|thumb|right|300px|French art: [[Claude Monet]] by [[Renoir]].]]
[[Image:Renoir Monet pintando en su jardín de Argenteuil.jpg|thumb|right|300px|French art: [[Claude Monet]] by [[Renoir]].]]
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Although the revolutionaries advocated republican and egalitarian principles of government, France reverted to forms of absolute rule or constitutional monarchy four times—the Empire of [[Napoleon]], the Restoration of Louis XVIII, the reign of Louis-Philippe, and the '''[[Second French Empire]]''' of [[Louie Napoleon]]. After the [[Franco-Prussian War]] (1870), the Third Republic was established and lasted until the military defeat of 1940 at the hands of the Germans.
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===Restoration of the Monarchy===
===Restoration of the Monarchy===
*[[Congress of Vienna]]
*[[Congress of Vienna]]
*[[Concert of Europe]]
*[[Concert of Europe]]
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Although the revolutionaries advocated republican and egalitarian principles of government, France reverted to forms of absolute rule or constitutional monarchy four times—the Empire of [[Napoleon]], the Restoration of Louis XVIII, the reign of Louis-Philippe, and the '''[[Second French Empire]]''' of [[Louie Napoleon]]. After the [[Franco-Prussian War]] (1870), the Third Republic was established and lasted until the military defeat of 1940 at the hands of the Germans.