AH Challenge: A longer lasting July monarchy

How can we get a July monarch under Louis Philippe I that manages to last until at least the end of World War I?
And, assuming that this is possible, what consequences would this have for both France and the rest of Europe?
I imagine Legitimism would never be the same ;)
 
How can we get a July monarch under Louis Philippe I that manages to last until at least the end of World War I?
And, assuming that this is possible, what consequences would this have for both France and the rest of Europe?
I imagine Legitimism would never be the same ;)

Louis Philippe can be less involved in French government. His constant meddling caused opposition to develop in the rising middle class, which in general was monarchial in its outlook.

An easier one is that he simply doesn't abdicate in 1848. If Louis Philippe stays in Paris and refuses to leave his throne, then when the working class revolt begins (the June Days Uprising), he can probably rally the frightened middle and upper classes to him, and in doing so save the monarchy.

With Louis Philippe on the throne and having rallied the pro-stability coalition that Louis Napoleon would use for his OTL political rise, Napoleon's political ambitions are frustrated. Louis Napoleon is probably exiled or maybe the Orleanists are really clever and manage to tie him to the June Days Uprising, and execute him. So Louis Napoleon is either dead or exiled (dead more likely) by the end of the instability.

I think that any system of French government post-48 that isn't led by Louis Napoleon is going to follow a sane (that is not relentlessly and pointlessly warmongering) foreign policy. This (IMHO) will have massive butterflies, up to and including vastly different (perhaps aborted completely) national unification movements in Italy and Germany.

How's that for a response?
 
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