Modern European history . ANNEXATIONS TO PIEDMONT 335 sovereignty thus offered him, and on April 2, i860, the first parlia-ment of the enlarged kingdom met in Turin. A small state of less than5,000,000 had grown to one of 11,000,000 within a year. This was themost important change in the poUtical system of Europe since far as Italy was concerned it made waste paper of the treaties of constituted the most damaging breach made thus far in the work ofthe Congress of Vienna. What that congress had decided was to be amere geographical expression was now a nation in formation. Andthi
Modern European history . ANNEXATIONS TO PIEDMONT 335 sovereignty thus offered him, and on April 2, i860, the first parlia-ment of the enlarged kingdom met in Turin. A small state of less than5,000,000 had grown to one of 11,000,000 within a year. This was themost important change in the poUtical system of Europe since far as Italy was concerned it made waste paper of the treaties of constituted the most damaging breach made thus far in the work ofthe Congress of Vienna. What that congress had decided was to be amere geographical expression was now a nation in formation. Andthis was being accomplished by the triumphant assertion of two prin-ciples utterly odious to the monarchs of 1815, the right of revolutionand the right of peoples to determine their own destinies for themselves,for these annexations were the result of war and of plebiscites. Napoleon III acquiesced in all this, taking for himself Cession of Savoy and Nice in return for services rendered. The ?.^™y ^^ ? Nice to Peace of V
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