re: #167 No Malarkey!

France was a party to it, and it had lost its empire. The whole point of the Congress was to rebalance power among the major powers. After 1815, France was done seeking empire in Europe, and the balance of power held for nearly a century until the imperial ambitions of Austria-Hungary, Russia and Germany sparked a general war.

A quote from Blackadder Goes Forth: “The British Empire covers a quarter of the globe while the German Empire consists of a small sausage factory in in Tanganyika!”