Timeline for Have there been any efforts by the countries of Europe to restore their monarchies?
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| Jun 8, 2016 at 13:20 | comment | added | Relaxed | (+1) The odd thing about France is that the first and second French empires, while clearly autocratic, cannot really be lumped together with the monarchy. To an extent, Napoleon was able to stay in power precisely because he represented an alternative to the Bourbons. But there is another time at which France came very close to a restoration of the monarchy, and that's not 1799, 1804 or 1852 but 1870. | |
| Apr 27, 2016 at 13:03 | history | answered | Psychonaut | CC BY-SA 3.0 |