One scenario I find tremendously interesting is where an alt-French Revolution erupts in the Papal States and Italy is unified under a radical, militant atheist republic...
But Napoleon didn't want to unify Italy. Whatever he didn't annex directly to France was given to his satraps as nominally independent polities.I'v always thought that if Napoleon never invaded Russia, he would stay in power long enough to unify Italy and make it a liberal client state, as with Spain.
Now this is a TL I'd read.One scenario I find tremendously interesting is where an alt-French Revolution erupts in the Papal States and Italy is unified under a radical, militant atheist republic...
But Napoleon didn't want to unify Italy. Whatever he didn't annex directly to France was given to his satraps as nominally independent polities.