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The Peace Congress of Paris in 1856. The Franco-Russian relations and Romanian
problem.
European diplomacy was meeting in Paris after 40 years of the Congress of Vienna,
which ended with Napoleon Bonaparte of warfare. Now France is crowned with the laurels of
success, making an alliance with England to defeat Russia in the Crimean War. The Romanian
problem found its place on the foreign policy agenda of the great powers. Although Russia
had been defeated by France and its allies, secret negotiations taking place between the Duke
of Morny and Russian Minister of Vienna Mihail Gorceacov. The Congress of Paris in 1856
demonstrated that this approach is visible. France supported the union of the two Romanian
principalities, and Russia, surprisingly. Russia seek to rehabilitate to Romanians, but also to
break the Franco-British alliance. Yet the two countries during the Crimean War antagonists
have collaborated to achieve wishes Romanians at that time, and in some moments France
was willing to cede ground to the Russians. Paris Congress did not give a definitive solution
to achieve union because of divergent views of the great powers, but managed to get an ally Russia.