AH Challenge: Get the French Monarchy Back

Your task is to bring back the French Monarchy. But the Monarch must be a Bonaparte and have the title Emperor of France. The POD is anytime after Vichy France was created (so anytime after 10 July 1940.)

How you do it is up to you but it has to be legitimate (i.e. No ASB.) And it must also not have any disaster, use of Nuclear Weapons and no Soviet invasion etc.

Go!
 
Mmmmm?????

Nothing says the emperor must be accepted by everyone or even rule France.

So, how this?

OAS contact the Bonapartist pretendent and he accepts. SO, instead of a quarteron de generaux Faction, the Algerian rebellion is (figure)headed by Napoleon IV, Emperor of France, crowned such by 4 generals in Algiers cathedral.

Then De Gaulle calls out against 'une fin de race degeneree, un tyran d'opera-bouffe, une marionette de pantalonade' and the rebellion stops because the conscript regiments obey De Gaulle rather than an unknown pretending to Bonapartes blood.
 

Xen

Banned
Why does it have to be a Bonapartist, that is the most difficult of three claimants to return to the throne, and damn well near ASB territory especially considering the Bonapartist claimant was actively opposing the Germans and Vichy. The Orleanist claimant was the same way, the Bourbonist is possible.

Several things need to happen, first the monarchist must oppose the Vichy regime, second the Republicans must be discounted somehow, thirdly you need the Bonapartists exploits to become legendary in France somehow, perhaps with the death of deGaulle by a German assassin, the allies get wind of his stories and begin broadcasting it over the BBC. British SAS commandos link up with him and a group of his followers supplying them with training and American made weaponry, the outfit grows and when Paris is liberated it is the would be Emperor leading the way.
 
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