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Events often have a dual nature: while the economic crisis ravaged the European Continent and sparked political upheaval, it also hastened the establishment of the Vienna System.
As gunshots rang out in Lyon, the French government was trapped in both domestic and foreign difficulties; the flourishing Italian independence movement nearly pushed the formidable Greater French Empire to the brink of collapse.
To change its disadvantageous political and diplomatic situation, the French urgently needed a stable international environment, and the Paris Government had no choice but to make concessions on the issue of disarmament.
Without French obstruction, the disarmament conference proceeded exceptionally smoothly.
On January 21, 1882, 15 European countries including England, France, Russia, and Austria signed the "Army Restriction Treaty".
According to the treaty, the sizes of the national armies were as follows:
Russian Empire: 500,000;
Austria: 486,000;
France: 382,000;
