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What Happened When Revolutionary Ideals Met Imperial Extraction in Northern Italy? - The End of the Venetian Republic and Napoleon's Italian Diplomacy | Sleepy Facts About History
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In the autumn of 1797, a young French general with no formal diplomatic authority sat in a Venetian nobleman's villa and traded a thousand-year-old republic for territorial concessions. The Treaty of Campo Formio was technically a peace agreement between revolutionary France and imperial Austria, but in practice, it was something far more consequential. It marked the moment Napoleon Bonaparte ceased to be merely a military commander and became a political architect who could extinguish old…
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