Today marks the 70th year since the outbreak of the Republican Revolutions and nearly the same amount of time since Emperor Napoleon was victorious at the historic Battle of Waterloo and French control of continental Europe established. The Continental System of Napoleon weathered the storm, battered but victorious. The malcontents of the world licked their wounds and bided their time. Radicals and Republicans, Jacobins and Nationalists, all watched for signs of weakness. Today, the streets of Paris are filled with revelers as memories of the Revolution swell the hearts and minds of the young with dreams of liberty. Emperor Napoleon IV looks on with bated breath, The Germans fight amongst themselves, the Russian Tsar looks to reclaim the land lost to the First Emperor Napoleon and the Revolutionaries that overran it, America remains divided primed for a war of unification, and China struggles while Japan looks to capitalize. The world is ready to erupt. All it takes is a single spark. In the famous words of King Louis XV, Après moi, le déluge (After me, the flood).