sister republic
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client state of France during the French Revolutionary Wars with republic as form of government
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- historical country
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- Cisrhenian Republic
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- French First Republic 1799.svg
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1799 caricature in which the Prussian ("God, how it grows; It's terrifying"), Russian ("That should be good to eat"), and Austrian ("Don't touch that, my friend, it's poisonous") monarchs watch how republics spring up like mushrooms around France, spreading towards other European capitals
Sister republics (French: république sœur, pronounced [ʁepyblik sœʁ] ) were satellite states of the French Republic set up in the territories captured by the victorious French Army during the French Revolutionary Wars; like their protector, they were revolutionary republics. This became particularly evident after the First French Empire was established in 1804, after which France annexed several sister republics and transformed the remainder into monarchies ruled by members of the House of Bonaparte.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “sister republic” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.