Hello everybody.
I've read so much AHs starting with "No French Revolution" and ending with a French version of England or a super-conservative Kingdom of France.
After a while I started thinking that a different outcome must be possible.
Reading about Proto-Fascist Regimes and Theocracies before the XX century I had an inspiration.
Here's my project.
In an alternate 1792 everything seems like in 1774 on the surface, but nobles in Versailles are not having great unrestrained parties in their expensive clothes (Symbols of a lascivious past.), intellectuals aren't talking about the rights of human beings while writing prolix pamphlets on the form of government they like most, the bureaucratic machine forgot the word "corruption", everyone who's not wearing a cross is paying taxes to the State, religious dissenters are running to other countries while their possessions in France are confiscated, a special commission of Jesuits is dealing with Justice in the name of the King while a secret police is removing all the "enemies of France" and some ships filled with those "vicious traitors" are sailing to French Guyana.

Is there a chance?
 
Then you need a much much earlier POD. Controversy had surrounded the Jesuits well before 1764 and to some extent went back to Jansenist thought that was popular amongst the French nobility and intellectuals (Pascale for example had strong Jansenist tendencies). If you go back that far it starts to become less of a No French Revolution timeline and something else (e.g. a more competent 18th century French state).
 
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