Would Napoleon ever have held a "congress of Vienna"?

Napoleon made a lot of deals with diffefent kings and emperors during his reigns, but he never attempted to get representatives of all major nations in europe to come to a collective agreement about borders and spheres of influence did he?

Part of the reason seems to be that Nappy never saw himself as done, there was always another campaign, another conquest, another war, but if he somehow was convinced that the Europe he had torn apart and stitched back together again was good enough, do you think he would've attempted?
 
The whole point of the Congress of Vienna, as I understand it, was to make sure that something like Napoleon never happened again and to perform damage control across Europe. In a Napoleonic victory scenario, Napoleon wouldn't see anything wrong with Europe at all. There wouldn't be a Congress of Vienna because it wouldn't be necessary.
 
The whole point of the Congress of Vienna, as I understand it, was to make sure that something like Napoleon never happened again and to perform damage control across Europe. In a Napoleonic victory scenario, Napoleon wouldn't see anything wrong with Europe at all. There wouldn't be a Congress of Vienna because it wouldn't be necessary.

That was one goal, but the most pressing matter was to make sense of the map of Europe after 20 years of being redrawn and lots of princes losing their thrones (Germany went from about 300 states to 40). And to give the winners their spoils.
 
That was one goal, but the most pressing matter was to make sense of the map of Europe after 20 years of being redrawn and lots of princes losing their thrones (Germany went from about 300 states to 40). And to give the winners their spoils.
In which case Napoleon made sense of the map on his own without seeing the need for a Congress or the need to appease upset aristocrats. Winners (such as they were) were given their scraps straight from Napoleon's hand instead of being awarded it by a Congress.

That said, perhaps one would be possible if a more flexible successor (Napoleon II, perhaps?) realized that most of Europe was starting to get uncomfortable after thirty-odd years of overbearing French hegemony. Something to clear the air and formalize the big land grabs of Schönbrunn and Tilsit and Pressburg.
 
In which case Napoleon made sense of the map on his own without seeing the need for a Congress or the need to appease upset aristocrats. Winners (such as they were) were given their scraps straight from Napoleon's hand instead of being awarded it by a Congress.

That said, perhaps one would be possible if a more flexible successor (Napoleon II, perhaps?) realized that most of Europe was starting to get uncomfortable after thirty-odd years of overbearing French hegemony. Something to clear the air and formalize the big land grabs of Schönbrunn and Tilsit and Pressburg.

Napoleon would appreciate the propaganda value of forcing all of Europe to bow and scrape and grovel before France, especially perfidious Albion.
 
Napoleon would appreciate the propaganda value of forcing all of Europe to bow and scrape and grovel before France, especially perfidious Albion.
Unless the British were defeated at sea, they were never going to be brought to the table at a peace conference organized BY Bonaparte. The Congress of Vienna was about a lot of things already mentioned but it was also about the great powers (at least the Allies - Austria, Prussia, Britain, Russia) maintaining the balance of power in Europe so no one state dominates. Napoleon was only concerned about French hegemony and power and maintaining it indefinitely by taking the spoils of other states (Spain, Italians, Germans)- why would any other power trust him as an organizer of such a Congress?
 
If France has neutralized Russia and brought the continent under uncontested control the British may have their fleets but there's little they can do to bring France to the table. If Britain wants any say in a future map of Europe they would have to play ball.
 
Unless the British were defeated at sea, they were never going to be brought to the table at a peace conference organized BY Bonaparte. The Congress of Vienna was about a lot of things already mentioned but it was also about the great powers (at least the Allies - Austria, Prussia, Britain, Russia) maintaining the balance of power in Europe so no one state dominates. Napoleon was only concerned about French hegemony and power and maintaining it indefinitely by taking the spoils of other states (Spain, Italians, Germans)- why would any other power trust him as an organizer of such a Congress?

Oh, I’m not sayng they trust him, I’m just saying that he would see the propaganda value being able to force all of Europe to publicly bend the knee to France.
 
Oh, I’m not sayng they trust him, I’m just saying that he would see the propaganda value being able to force all of Europe to publicly bend the knee to France.

Except no Congress would take place if it was about knee-bending. Napoleon needs the other Great Powers to willingly accept the proposed plans for the change in the European status quo; otherwise it's just another 3-5 year armastice, so he's going to have to take British and Russian interests at minimum into account and listen to their voices. That means demanding to be treated as an equal (or first among equals), not some all high Roman Emperor.
 
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