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The article deals with the Paris Conference on the Banda Oriental (1816-1819), the summit which solved the question of the aforementioned region (between Uruguay and Brazil) disputed by Spain and Portugal. The Conference is taken as an effective point of view to see how European states acted in order to maintain or reinvent the existing political, cultural and ideological boundaries with the Hispanic-American colonies during the falling of the old empires. The research aims at investigating these powers’ actual projection in the Atlantic space, questioning the teleological perspective on revolutions which has always given prominence to the national mobilization while neglecting other dynamics linked to the revolutions. To do so, the “reactionary” Atlantic space envisioned by Spain and the “liberal” Atlantic spaces envisioned by French and Russia will be discussed and compared.