Ressource pédagogique : Bruno Martin-Gay - Alexandre Walewski, émissaire à Londres du Gouvernement insurrectionnel polonais : convaincre les puissances de faire régner l’ordre juridique de Vienne à Varsovie (1831-1832)

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At the Congress of Vienna, the Polish question was a tricky one and depended mainly on the Russian position. After Napoleon’s escape from Elba, the discussions became harsher and Tsar Alexander I managed to extend his sovereignty to the heart of Poland. Though the Congress’s Final Act dated 9 June 1815 did not allow him to reunite the whole former Jagiellonian kingdom. The main principles of the treaty were the result of the Great Compromise of 8 February. The tsar eventually agreed to give back Galicia to Austria and part of the Duchy of Warsaw, to Frederick Willima’s Prussia under the name of Grand Duchy of Posen, apart from Krakow, which became a free city -the Kingdom of Poland ; the king was the Tsar, namely Alexander.  His dealth in 1825 upset the relationship between the tsarist power and the Congress Kingdom as the new tsar Nicolas I intented to exercise closer control over it : this eventually led to the Polish uprising and, in its wake, to the Polish-Russian war, brought to an end by the entry of Russian troops into Warsaw in September 1831 with the view of resoring order, During the hostilities, Walewski was entrusted by the Provisional Gouvernment of Poland with a diplomatic mission to London. Based on a careful persual of the four volumes of Walewski’s archives (Diplomatic Archives), with occasional references to Palmerston and Talleyrand’s already searched archives and Sebastiani’s -soon to be this paper provides insight into Walewski’s mission to London.

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