There would have been no grapeshot fired at the Paris mob, no expulsion of the British at Toulon, no victory over the Austrians at Marengo, no crossing of the St. Bernard Pass, no Grande Armee, no Trafalgar, no Austerlitz and its infamous "red sun", no Continental Blockade, no Russian adventure (no 1812 Overture for that matter), no Waterloo, no Continental Blockade...I could go on almost forever...[/quote[
Hmm. Let's remember that Napoleon was only one of the many bright stars of the Republic. There's Hoche, Desaix, Bernadotte, etc.
Shooting grapeshot at a crowd was nothing new; and Toulon wasn't exactly a strategic masterpiece. "Let's place cannon on top of the hill."
But the levee en masse had already happened by 1795; by the time of Napoleon's invasion of Italy, the French controlled the Rhineland and Low countries.
The Holy Roman Empire isn't disbanded. There is no Confederation of the Rhine.
Maybe; although the secularization and mediations still occur.
Italy is still a bunch of separate states united only in the Catholic faith. It's worse for Germany, where more than 2,000 "principalities" claim sovereignty, and all the different tolls, taxes, and dues that go with it.
Perhaps, but the mediations that occurred to compensate states who lost land in the Rhineland still occur.
The Napoleonic Code isn't formed, leading to perhaps severe civil implications.
Yes; perhaps the republican code of Hoche or some one who wasn't born from Corsican gentry isn't as harsh on women.
French industry doesn't get the "kick" it needs from Napoleon and his hoarde of gold in the cellars of the Tuileries, the list goes on and on...
OTOH, no massive bankruptcies in 1809, endless conscription, wars fought for the benefit of the autocrat in charge of France...