Why wasn't France carved up after Napoleon was defeated? (Short Animated Documentary)

Napoleon embarrassed everyone. Lost. Nobody took territory from France afterwards. But why not? To find out watch this short and simple animated history documentary.

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[ChessedGamon]

"Nobody helped Switzerland because nobody cared about them"

This sounds like a villain backstory but for neutrality

[AFGuidesHD]

Because James Bisonette was the new King and the allies didn't want to lose their funding.

[AjarTadpole]

"Austria wanted a strong France to counter Britain and Russia"
"Russia wanted a strong France to counter Britain and Austria"
Me: And I'm guessing Britain wanted a strong France to deal with Russia and Austria?
"And Britain just didn't want to deal with the continent anymore"
...Yeah I should have seen that coming

[ambergris]

The Switzerland story is actually quite a bit more of a success than what you presented. You have to imagine that at the time, Switzerland was more disunited than it is today, had only recently structured itself (thanks to Napoleon actually), and had about... nothing to offer to the big players. The fact that they managed to gain back all the territories of the former confederation - or in other words, of the messy loose web of alliances that went in all directions (except for Valtellina and Mulhouse), and even gained territory that would allow for the self-subsistence of Geneva (who until then was a city surrounded by France and Savoy with no land), is an absolute triumph of diplomacy.

[nicolajrath]

"and Britain just didn't want to have to deal with the continent anymore." Some things never change

[ihavetowaitdaystochangem]

You know things got serious when Switzerland wants to annex actual land

[MuchWhittering]

"I don't think we should punish France." - France

[lordsiomai]

you know you've been a bad boy when entire coalitions of countries declared war on *you* and not your country

[ArgenPolmerica]

It’s kind of interesting that every power that bordered France(Savoy, Swiss, Netherlands, and Austria(who had large influence in Germany) all wanted to punish France hard and countries like Britain and Russia that had no border with France didn’t want to punish it.

[ScorpoYT]

Long story short: nobody wanted a french version of the Austrian painter

[galatheumbreon]

"Britain just didn't wanna deal with the continent anymore" British foreign policy for about 70 years after that

[MrTTar]

On a similar note, another question I've wondered is why the UK didn't (re)gain Heligoland as part of the Treaty of Versailles. Presumably it wasn't considered viable to defend against a revanchist Germany.

[kabobawsome]

Ironically, the "Give Prussia the Rhinelands so we can take it for ourselves" plan backfired very hard because it was far more valuable than most Prussian land and was the first real major step to German unification. Which would come to bite France's ass when Prussia came knocking for Alsace-Lorraine.

[Osterochse]

1:20 is in my opinion the most interesting part in this video. The fact that Talleyrand wanted the Rhine area to become prussian instead of the polish areas, which were a part of prussia before the napoleonic wars, in some way created Germany in the long run. Prussia had now a huge incentive to connect its eastern and Western lands and made it a driving force in somehow uniting the northern German states either by unifying them diplomatically or annexing them. If the Rhine province had never become a part of Prussia there might not have been a German unification under Prussian hegemony. The Prussian kings were never huge fans of becoming German emperors anyway. They were content with beeing Prussian kings.

[Orangejr]

Every European treaty negotiation that involves the Netherlands comes down to them trying to force themselves to a place on the Great Powers table and then being told to get lost.

Got to admire the determination.

[ClearStarryNight]

It would be great to see the old/new maps overlaid whenever there are territorial changes. Seeing them sequentially forces one to pause the video and jump back-and-forth in time a couple of times to notice the differences...

[jakel]

Switzerland: Time to pay up France. You OWE me land!

Everyone: Shut up Meg

[thetoastergod]

Can you do "why did Portugal not colonize South Africa?"
or "why did Portugal not colonize North America?"
both are interesting
Edit: I know about the treaty of Tordesillas but they DID establish a failed colony in Canada, that’s why I asked
For South Africa they did GO to the cape of good hope but never made a colony there

[kel]

The only time in recorded history where the British didn’t like France losing territory

[Darkred]

France: “Please don’t carve me up.”
Also France: “Let’s carve up Germany.”