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The French Second Empire fought a war with Austria over Italian unification in 1859, but then supported the installation of an Austrian Habsburg, Maximilian, as Emperor of Mexico from 1864 onward. What led to this shift in French policy regarding the Habsburgs?

by /u/EnclavedMicrostate in /r/AskHistorians

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