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The Comte Mirabeau seems to me to be one of the few politicians during the early Revolutionary period that wanted change and wanted a king (he settled on Louis XVI by default, because he regarded Philippe Égalite as weak). However, his feuds (for want of a better term) with the Marquis de Lafayette (who monopolized the army and the national guard) and Jacques Necker (the minister of finance) were problematic. Lafayette later incited the king against Mirabeau and as a result Louis lost all confidence in him.

His ideas on what the state should be, and how it should be run, were good ones - he didn't seek to simply copy England, but rather adapt English models to work in the France of the day. A moderate who proposed a constitutional monarchy, but who's turn never came - well, it did come, a few weeks before his death - I could see him directing the monarchy, and the French state (maybe even as premier ministre) in a different direction to what happened OTL.

If he were to live, and several of his ideas were carried through, what effect might this have
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