AHC: Create a French Third Republic without the Franco-Prussian War

Anyone know Napoleon IV's likely ruling style? His dad will be gone (dead or voluntary abdication, which he mentioned due to his health) by the late 1870s so the Second Empire requires Nappy Mk.4 to bugger things up really.
 

Rush Tarquin

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Anyone know Napoleon IV's likely ruling style? His dad will be gone (dead or voluntary abdication, which he mentioned due to his health) by the late 1870s so the Second Empire requires Nappy Mk.4 to bugger things up really.

Well checking out how he died is good indication of his personality IMO.
 
Well checking out how he died is good indication of his personality IMO.

Misfortune?

And frankly, most 23 year olds are at least a little impetuous - that doesn't mean that's the be all and end all of their character.

He seems to have been a reasonably intelligent young man, and pleasant enough - I'd count those over his death as a sign of how he'll mature.
 

Rush Tarquin

Gone Fishin'
Misfortune?

And frankly, most 23 year olds are at least a little impetuous - that doesn't mean that's the be all and end all of their character.

He seems to have been a reasonably intelligent young man, and pleasant enough - I'd count those over his death as a sign of how he'll mature.

Maybe. But there does seem to be a pattern with the House of Bonaparte.
 

Rush Tarquin

Gone Fishin'
First we check how he died, then we assume he's just going to be like all the other Bonapartes.

At what point do we say that it's speculation what kind of ruler he'd be?

I'm totally speculating, but if I'm making a narrative, I'm probably gonna take cues from something, ie. I'm not being entirely serious.
 
France would easily trump Austria at the time and would probably be even stronger...though it may force Austria and Prussia to reconcile and unite against France later on...

Is it any more likely that some kind of French intervention in the Second Schleswig War ... also perhaps uniting the Austrians and Prussians as a foe more than Nap3 and the French can handle. And that's more a question as I'm guessing that there are many reasons why the French didn't use the chance to puff themselves up.
 
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