ABSTRACT
French foreign policy during the Orleans Monarchy was dominated by the search for an agreement with another power. In the first two years of the new monarchy's existence the fear of isolation exercised a profound influence over conduct of French diplomacy and almost every French politician and diplomat regarded an entente with another great power as only remedy. In foreign policy as in domestic affairs ministers of Louis Philippe advocated caution and patience. They argued that only by careful diplomacy could recovery be achieved without danger and with some prospect of permanence. Experience, they claimed, justified the truth of the assertion. Thiers argued in 1836 that France could not have intervened in Spain in 1823 without the support of Austria and Russia. Palmerston requested the French government to accede to a treaty between England, Portugal and Spain, the object of which was expulsion of Dom Miguel and Don Carlos, the pretenders to thrones of Portugal and Spain, from Portuguese territory.
