Could more countries have survived Napoleon?

... you do realize every one of those territories you mentioned were taken and absorbed by the Imperial regeime during the wars, right? That's not Versailles by any strech of the imagination: it's nullifying Brest-Litovisk. I'm talking about ripping into some actual integral parts of the Pre-Revolutionary French State.
At the very least the Peace of Amiens recognised France its "natural" borders, and it was the last period of peace France knew.
Reversing Brest Litovsk would thus be the 1813 Frankfurt offer.
 
The Knights of Malta are an interesting case. There is no doubt that many aspects of their rule were outdated, but they had some good sides and they made serious attempts at modernization. And while they were not terribly popular with the Maltese - indeed, there was even a rebellion in the 1770s - they were not universally hated either. It's telling that the Maltese revolt against the French Republic was way bigger and more popular than this earlier revolt against the Knights.

Henry Sire claims that the Order could have probably saved its domains with a leadership change - as in, if the Grand Master de Rohan died in 1792 instead of being partially paralyzed by his stroke. That way, he could have been replaced by an energetic new Grand Master, instead of muddling along for another couple of years and being replaced by a complete moron at the worst possible time. The fortifications of Malta were not strong enough to withstand any of the Great Powers, if that power wanted to assault it; but they were - Sire thinks - strong enough to make such an assault very costly, so with some clever diplomacy the Knights might have survived to see Napoleon's downfall.
I'm not sure I believe him, but it's an interesting perspective.

There's also the Republic of Ragusa, which I don't think was mentioned in this thread.
 
The fortifications of Malta were not strong enough to withstand any of the Great Powers, if that power wanted to assault it; but they were - Sire thinks - strong enough to make such an assault very costly, so with some clever diplomacy the Knights might have survived to see Napoleon's downfall.

French knights supposedly weren't keen on fighting their countrymen, and they formed the absolute majority of the membership. But yes, the French managed to provoke a pretty unprecedented revolt against themselves in Malta, one for which there are still lots of monuments and historic sites. In fact they got penned into the very fortifications in Valletta and Fort Chambray by the Maltese militia even before the Neapolitan and British troops landed.
 
France also had to pay a 700 million francs indemnity, and was occupied by coalition troops (at France's expense) until this was paid.

Only after the Hundred Days. The Peace of 1814 had made no such requirements, and had even allowed France to keep the art treasures which Napoleon had looted from all over Europe.

Had Germany rejected the ToV, so that hostilities resumed in 1919, no doubt she too would have received harsher terms the second time round.

And the situation on the ground also matters. In Nov 1918, the Entente held no German land save a corner of Alsace (if that so qualifies) and some largely worthless scraps of colonial territory. OTOH, in 1814 the Allies held all of northeastern France, including Paris itself, plus a chunk of the Southwest which Wellington had overrun. So effectively it was they who ceded territory back to France, not vice versa.
 
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