[pierrem15]

The Polish peasants now in Austria and Prussia, on the other hand, were subjected to the reforms carried out in these countries.

I don't think this is true, at least if we're talking about the immediate post-Napoleonic period, as serfdom existed in Austrian Galicia until 1848.

[FreedomPoster]

BFL

[Dr. Franklin]

I don't think this is true, at least if we're talking about the immediate post-Napoleonic period, as serfdom existed in Austrian Galicia until 1848.

Napoleon never took Austrian Galicia as part of his empire. So, serfdom continued there even though it was abolished in the Russian and Prussian parts of the partitions of Poland. Since the Poles were so loyal to Napoleon, one can only wonder how history might be different had Napoleon liberated these lands before his disasterous campaign in Russia.