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The German Confederation created in 1815 and presided over by the Emperor of Austria, did not satisfy the German patriots. Bismarck and William I undertook to unify the German states around the Kingdom of Prussia. Bibliography: - Pierre Ayçoberry, German Unity, 1800-1871, Presses universitaires de France, 1968 - François-Georges Dreyfus, German Unity, Presses universitaires de France, 1993 - Heinrich August Winkler (trans. Odile Demange), History of Germany 19th-20th Century - The Long Road to the West, Fayard, 2005 ps: Great Britain is shifted to the North.