Wouldn't the white color also be too reminiscent of the Ancien Regime?
Considering the Action Française's main aim was to re-establish the monarchy, seems appropriate.
Wouldn't the white color also be too reminiscent of the Ancien Regime?
The French would avoid using a white or mostly-white flag because it has become an international symbol of surrender. [...] It’s for this reason that the OTL Confederacy changed its flag from a white flag with the cross in the canton, to the same design with a red bar on the side.
Not only does that have poor political implications for a revanchist regime, but it’s also confusing on the battlefield.
The problem is one where the amount of pure white space is much more important than the rest. A number of flags, such as the british Royal Navy ensign, Tsarist era Russian naval ensign and WW1 era german warflag had white fields.
just to be pedantic here though, by WW2, soldiers didn't normally run on the battlefield carrying a flag.
A few possibilities:
"Mon Royaume vaut bien la peine de voir mes sujets saluer un haillon"
"My kingdom is well worth the sorrow of seeing my subjects saluting a rag"
Considering the Action Française's main aim was to re-establish the monarchy, seems appropriate.
I really like #1 & #3 - I would actually be interested in seeing a design that included the big fleur-de-lys as a centrepiece, with smaller lilies scattered across the rest of the field (though that might be over-egging the pudding a little).
Thank You very kindly for that suggestion - my command of French is rather on the level of a reasonably scholarly schoolboy - am I correct in deducing that you are Un Gentilhomme de Francophonie?
Quite so - they might be wiser to harken back to the "Citizen King" Louis Philippe (basically sovereign lord of a Constitutional Monarchy), but given the hammering Bonapartist & the Republic have taken, even the Bad Old Days regarded so nostalgically by the Legitimists might not look SO bad by comparison!
They did, but I think those designs had enough color on them to be visibly not flags of surrender. I will grant that this also applies to your suggestions.
Certainly, but fortified positions still used them.
based on their writing, they saw democracy as innately flawed and believed in a strict separation of society into different classes, each with their own rights and responsibilities so any type of constitutional monarchy would have been antithetical to their view of "a perfect society". That being said, I'm pretty sure they might have been willing to pick a different candidate to be their king if the current legitimist pretender refused the job and find some way to justify their decision of an orleanist / junior line legitimist or any other pliable member of the nobility.
Old drawing that could work as an mid war Russian tank
You might be interested to know that, in FILLING THE GAPS canon, Charles XI is actually an Orléanist - though one who idolises Charles VI rather than Louis Philippe (in our own history, Charles D'Orleans was born and died in 1875; in Timeline 191 he lasted rather longer). I actually came up with a quote "The Most Christian is a monarch who works in the 20th Century but prefers to spend weekends in the Dark Ages" to sum up the contradictions in this version of the character (I'm tempted to attribute that quote to Winston S. Churchill and can only hope it seems worthy of that wicked wit).
May I please ask if this is the best place to ask questions about how the weaponry & equipment of belligerents would have differed had a Pacific War been fought between Japan & the United States of America during the 1930s, rather than the 1940s? (This is partly prompted by Timeline-191s Pacific War, but also by Mr Hector Bywater's GREAT PACIFIC WAR - hence my initial uncertainty).
I drew up a couple of Mexican barrels, they were originally posted on the Featherston's Finest thread https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...vehicles-of-the-csa-and-freedom-party.450965/Does anyone have ideas for indigenous Mexican barrels?
I drew up a couple of Mexican barrels, they were originally posted on the Featherston's Finest thread https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...vehicles-of-the-csa-and-freedom-party.450965/
Here they are again.
My buddy Claymore made this Mexican barrel dubbed the Cortez CG-39 El Raccoon.
There's a little more detail about these barrels on the Featherston thread, page 10 or 11 I believe and a post briefly describing a short campaign between Mexico and Guatemala that feature these barrels and some older Union light barrels on that thread as well but I don't remember what page.
BTW we decided to nickname light barrels "Kegs".