Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan gudun hijira na Napoleon, sabon tsarin mulkin Bourbon ya taimaka wa sarki Bourbon na Spain ya sake dawo da kursiyinsa a lokacin da Faransa ta shiga cikin Spain
a shekara ta 1823. Don dawo da martabar masarautar Faransa, wanda juyin juya hali da Daular Farko suka yi jayayya da shi, Charles X ya shiga cikin mamayar soja na Algeria a 1830. Wannan ya nuna farkon sabon fadada daular mulkin mallaka ta Faransa a cikin karni na 19. A wannan ƙarni, Faransa ta ci gaba da kasancewa ƙasa mafi iko a al'amuran nahiyar. Bayan Juyin Juya Halin Yuli na 1830, sarki mai sassaucin ra'ayi Louis Philippe I ya goyi bayan 'yan adawa na Spain da Belgium a 1831. Daga baya Faransawa sun ci Habsburgs a cikin Yaƙin Franco-Austrian na 1859, nasarar da ta haifar da haɗin kan Italiya a 1861, bayan sun ci nasara a kan Rasha tare da sauran abokan haɗin gwiwa a cikin Yakin Crimea na 1854 <unk>56. Abin takaici, duk da haka, sojojin Faransa sun fito daga waɗannan nasarorin a cikin yanayin da ya wuce gona da iri. Rashin nasarar Faransa a cikin Yaƙin Franco-Prussian ya haifar da asarar Alsace-Lorraine da ƙirƙirar daular Jamus mai haɗin kai, duka sakamakon da ke wakiltar manyan gazawa a cikin manufofin Faransa na dogon lokaci da kuma haifar da ramuwar gayya, na kishin ƙasa da nufin sake dawo da tsoffin yankuna. Dreyfus Affair, duk da haka, ya sauƙaƙe waɗannan dabi'un kishin ƙasa ta hanyar haifar da shakku na jama'a game da ƙwarewar sojoji.