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The Rise Of Nationalism In Europe

Question
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Why did Metternich remark—‘If France sneezes, rest of Europe catches cold’?

Solution

Matternich remarked so because the Bourbon kings who had been restored to power during the conservative reaction after 1815, were overthrown by liberal revolutionaries who installed a constitutional monarchy with Louis Philippe at its head. Political upheaval in France (1830) had sparked an uprising in Brussels which led to Belgium breaking away from the kingdom of Netherlands.