During its occupation of neighboring parts of Europe during the French Revolutionary Wars, France established republican regimes in these territories. The French Republic claimed to support the spread of the republican principles in Europe, but most of these client republics, or sister republics, were in fact a means of controlling the occupied lands through a mix of French and local control.
French client republics of Italy[]
- Republic of Alba (1796–1801) annexed to the French Empire
- Ligurian Republic (1796–1805) annexed to the French Empire
- Italian Republic (1802–1805) transformed into the Kingdom of Italy
- Cisalpine Republic (1797–1802) transformed into the Italian Republic
- Cispadane Republic (1796–1797) formed the Cisalpine Republic
- Bolognese Republic (1796) annexed to the Cispadane Republic
- Republic of Bergamo (1797) formed the Cisalpine Republic
- Transpadane Republic (1797) formed the Cisalpine Republic
- Republic of Crema (1797) formed the Cisalpine Republic
- Cispadane Republic (1796–1797) formed the Cisalpine Republic
- Cisalpine Republic (1797–1802) transformed into the Italian Republic
- Republic of Brescia (1797)
- Roman Republic (1798–1800)
- Republic of Ancona (1797–1798) joined Roman Republic
- Tiberina Republic (1798–1799) capital Perugia, joined Roman Republic
- Lémanique Republic (1798) today Vaud canton
- Etruscan Republic (1799)
- Republic of Pescara (1799)
- Parthenopaean Republic (1799) capital Naples
- Subalpine Republic (1802) annexed to the French Empire
Other French client republics[]
- Republic of Bouillon (1794–1795)
- Republic of Rauracia (Raurakische Republik/Republique Rauracienne) revolutionary French republic in Basel (1792–1793)
- Republic of Mainz revolutionary French republic in Rheinhessen and Pfalz (1793)
- Batavian Republic (1795–1806) Netherlands
- Cisrhenian Republic (1797) Germany
- Republic of Connacht (1798) accompanying Humbert's Irish expedition in support of the Irish Rebellion of 1798
- Helvetic Republic (1798–1803) Switzerland
- Republic of Danzig (1807–1815)
- Illyrian Republic (1809)
See also[]
- Client state
- Colonialism
- French revolution
- Napoleonic Wars
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