It's an interesting idea, but I'm sceptical about any peace that leaves Germany with a free hand in the East - the prospect of the Germans getting to create client states from the Baltic to the Black Sea would be an absolute nightmare for the Entente.
Good update, but on a purely stylistic note it's probably better to say 'The NSDAP - or ' Nazis' - fed like vultures....' Proper name first, then nickname, especially since in this timeline the average reader won't be as familiar with the word 'Nazi.'
Delightful. The balloon ride is thoroughly implausible, and yet perfectly plausible; it is exactly the sort of escapade that would appeal to Tipu, and if ninety nine times out of a hundred timelines it was a disaster, in this one it is the sort of thing that becomes a legend far beyond India...
Agreed. At the very least you need Phillippe off the board. I can just about squint and imagine that his son is too young and enough of an unknown quantity in 1792-3 that people opt for a regency that slides into a republic instead.
It’s certainly unlikely, to put it generously.
I’ve always thought an interesting scenario would be a (small c) conservative republic where the alienated elites of Lafayette and co still have a place in the mix.
Quite.
I expect a Terror that is terribly traumatic for France but is still milder in length and absolute terms than the one in OTL. Not that that's any consolation for the poor people going to the national razor, of course.
Why do we assume the mid-1790s will go on schedule? One of the big inciting incidents of the Terror has just been removed, and the military landscape is vastly different- France won't be under anywhere near as much pressure as OTL, though of course they'll have no way of knowing it.
When OTL's...
Again, don't assume there'll be a return of the monarchy.
Everyone's talking about how an exiled monarch is a stronger figure to rally for; I would argue he's also a much stronger figure to rally against. Louis has now made an enemy of every faction in the revolution- people who risked a lot...
It's bleakly funny that in the British historical imagination, the 1790s are the time of Wilberforce. People are aware of France betraying the Haitians and trying to reimpose slavery and have absolutely no idea of the tens of thousands of Britons who fought a major campaign to extend tyranny...
Honestly, for all this talk of Bonaparte or Bernadotte- with another year of breathing room for France, I desperately hope to see some sort of lasting Republic.
I don't think I've ever seen a surviving Republic under the Indulgents, actually- so far as France in this period goes it always...