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===French revolutionary and Napoleonic clients===
[[File:Europe 1812 map en.png|thumb|The [[First French Empire]] and its satellite states in 1812]]
The [[Batavian Republic]] was established in the [[Netherlands]] under French revolutionary protection.

In Italy, the [[French First Republic]] encouraged a proliferation of small republics in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, known as [[sister republic]]s.

In Eastern Europe, [[Napoleon]]'s [[First French Empire]] established the Polish client state of the [[Duchy of Warsaw]].<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40869047 | jstor=40869047 | title=The Adaptation of the Napoleonic Political Structure in the Duchy of Warsaw (1807–1813) | last1=Stanley | first1=John | journal=Canadian Slavonic Papers / Revue Canadienne des Slavistes | date=1989 | volume=31 | issue=2 | pages=128–145 | doi=10.1080/00085006.1989.11091911 | url-access=subscription }}</ref>