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Pretty cold, I would say. The liberal monarchy was ideologically opposed to the arch-reactionary Habsburg empire and the two countries had their spheres of influence clash quite a bit in Italy.
 

Delvestius

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Pretty cold, I would say. The liberal monarchy was ideologically opposed to the arch-reactionary Habsburg empire and the two countries had their spheres of influence clash quite a bit in Italy.

I mean, the post-revolutionary French government was carefully installed by the anti-revolutionary monarchies of the rest of Europe in 1815... Maybe their people weren't on-board with each other, but during the Concert of Europe, France, Austria and Russia depended on each other to help put down any revolution in any country... This was their priority between the Congress of Vienna and the Crimean war.. And it worked pretty damn well. The Italian question only started to become a question in the 1850s, ten years after the OP's date.
 
I mean, the post-revolutionary French government was carefully installed by the anti-revolutionary monarchies of the rest of Europe in 1815... Maybe their people weren't on-board with each other, but during the Concert of Europe, France, Austria and Russia depended on each other to help put down any revolution in any country... This was their priority between the Congress of Vienna and the Crimean war.. And it worked pretty damn well. The Italian question only started to become a question in the 1850s, ten years after the OP's date.

That was before the 1830s. The Concert of Europe basically broke down after that; Greece, Egypt, and Belgium independent, new (liberal, upsurper) monarchs on the thrones of France, Spain, and Portugal, Britain gave up her continual holding in Hanover.

Arguably the only places in Western Europe where the old conservative order held together were those within Austria's sphere of influence; the Italian and German states, and Switzerland. And of course Russia. But in all those places we did see strong, and continuing, uprisings and rebellions. The new liberal wave was pretty unstoppable at that point.

So I'd have to agree with Alternate History (highly unoriginal name BTW) in general; while Louis Philippe's France and Ferdinand's Austria certainly weren't going to be going to war anytime soon, the relationship between the two of them could accurately be described as cool.
 

Delvestius

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So I'd have to agree with Alternate History (highly unoriginal name BTW) in general; while Louis Philippe's France and Ferdinand's Austria certainly weren't going to be going to war anytime soon, the relationship between the two of them could accurately be described as cool.

Fair. Though I would still say the Concert, while increasingly ineffective, "died" with Crimea.
 
Fair. Though I would still say the Concert, while increasingly ineffective, "died" with Crimea.

Long before Crimea - 1848 was certainly the death knell of the concert. Hell, the only power interested in enforcing the concert during the Springtime of the Peoples was Prussia, and even then she only tackled the Poles and the minor German states, and that was only for her own internal security sure to the nature of the Polish Revolutionary and German Unification movements, not out of any idealogical commitment to stopping revolutionary fervor on the continent. No one even contemplated attacking France after the February Revolution.
 
Specific Instance

In 1836, the French government tried to negotiate a marriage between Louis Phillippe's heir apparent and an Austrian archduchess (not sure if they had a specific one in mind). The wedding didn't come off because Metternich thought that the French monarchy's prospects were so uncertain [not without reason -- there had been multiple coup attempts/ assassination attempts/uprisings since 1830].

So France had wanted good relations, but there were some hard feelings because of the failed negotiations. Shortly afterwards, the chief minister considered sending troops into Spain to help put down the Carlist rebellion (and annoy Metternich in the process), but Louis Phillippe vetoed the idea.
 
... but France did send troops to Spain during the Carlist Wars. The Foreign Legion's second deployment after Algeria was to Spain. In fact the French intervened in Spain before Ferdinand Philippe traveled to Vienna.
 
I've read in a couple of sources that Thiers resigned in 1836 beause the king wouldn't authorize his government to take an energetic part in the Carlist War. Maybe it was a matter of the scale of the intervention.
 
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