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Supposing Napoleon had won his namesake conflict, resulting in a Europe dominated his French power -- for our purposes, we don't have to worry about the "how", or the geopolitical details of the arrangement, just that the French dictator has "won" in the most definitive way possible. What I'm interested in here is what such a victory looks like:

What are the governing styles, social philosophies, and ideologies that get the biggest boost due to this (broadly defined) change? How does this generally change the course of the 19th Century? For example, can the European governments of TTL (again, not getting too specific about changes) achieve the same kind of lasting regional (relative) peace as OTL's Concert of Europe? In addition to political movements and diplomacy, what about economics; how would the Industrial Revolution be affected? Given how Europe is affected, how does this affect the rest of the world -- is, for example, European colonial imperialism weakened (or changed, etc)? And what of other changes -- in popular culture (literature, music, etc), in philosophy, religion, or what have you?

Remember -- we're less interested here in specifics as to how Napoleon achieves such a world, or the results of a specific PoD that might give him a victory, than in a general picture of what the world of OTL gained or lost by seeing him defeated. Since we have threads talking similarly about other grand conflicts of history (like WWI) I thought it was only fitting.
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