ABSTRACT
The question of the ‘sister republics’ cannot be reduced to an ephemeral political experiment that lasted from the creation of the Batavian Republic in January 1795 until the collapse of the Neapolitan Republic in June 1799. During these years new regimes, republics, appeared on Europe’s increasingly unstable diplomatic map, created under the tutelage of a quarrelsome and bellicose ‘mother-republic’ – the First French Republic – at war first against Austria, then against the eternal enemy, England.
