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In addition the Napoleonic Empire (as opposed to Napoleonic rule in France proper) is doomed to implode. The Revolution and Bonaparte encouraged nationalism and it would bite them in the face.

This. If you aren't French, the rhetoric of "liberty, equality, fraternity" doesn't go well with "taking orders from Paris."

I suspect that if Napoleon's empire stood for any length of time, it would be replaced by new republican governments, not by a return of the old dynasties. Mid-to-late 19th-century Europe would end up looking like a lot like modern Europe — republics, and the occasional very limited monarchy, with boundaries that roughly follow the dominant language. (At least where that's possible. Where it isn't possible, such as the Balkans… things would probably get messy.)
 
I suspect that if Napoleon's empire stood for any length of time, it would be replaced by new republican governments, not by a return of the old dynasties. Mid-to-late 19th-century Europe would end up looking like a lot like modern Europe — republics, and the occasional very limited monarchy, with boundaries that roughly follow the dominant language.

So basically the political changes resulting from the World Wars get moved up a century or so? Well that's something.
 
So basically the political changes resulting from the World Wars get moved up a century or so? Well that's something.

Not quite. The devastation of the World Wars forced European countries to work with each other (more or less), confront their own racism and savagery towards other Europeans and non-Europeans and give up their colonial empires. That is the silver lining of the World Wars.

Europe needed to go through more bloodshed to get the Europe of today: secular, democratic and a will to band together. So, a 19th century Europe in this scenario would be more powerful, racist, more willing to conduct power games with each other and more willing to go on colonial adventures. The influence of the Church would also be too strong.
 
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