AHC: Democratic Germany, Monarchist France

In OTL, post-1871 France had a fairly democratic system by the standards of the day, while Germany had a more conservative, monarchial, aristocratic political system. Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to switch out France and Germany in that description. POD can be anytime after the Congress of Vienna. (Germany doesn't have to be a Republic-a British-style Constitutional Monarchy is fine)
 
I was about to say, 1848 for Germany. Napoleonic France.

You'd need a PoD that completely changed the entire character of Louis-Napoleon for that. The only reason he didn't move towards a constitutional monarchy when he was ruling France was because of the events that brought him to the throne. The entire plan of that monarchy once the Prince Napoleon was born was to abdicate when he came of age in about 1873/4 and allow him to make constitutional reforms with a clean(er) slate. So even with an 1848 Germany, you might just about get 2 years of the OP's requirements, but it would be going pretty soon afterwards (particularly as Napoleon III was already rather ill in any case).
 
The entire plan ... was to abdicate ... about 1873/4 and allow him to make constitutional reforms with a clean(er) slate. So even with an 1848 Germany, you might just about get 2 years of the OP's requirements ...

1848 + 2 = 1873 ?? ;)

From what the commenters before me have written, I would consider the scenario where the 1848 revolution succeeds in Germany but not in France.

That would fulfill the desired conditions for some time.
 
You'd need a PoD that completely changed the entire character of Louis-Napoleon for that. The only reason he didn't move towards a constitutional monarchy when he was ruling France was because of the events that brought him to the throne. The entire plan of that monarchy once the Prince Napoleon was born was to abdicate when he came of age in about 1873/4 and allow him to make constitutional reforms with a clean(er) slate. So even with an 1848 Germany, you might just about get 2 years of the OP's requirements, but it would be going pretty soon afterwards (particularly as Napoleon III was already rather ill in any case).
Fair point, but you don't a Democratic Germany might affect Napoleon in any way?
 
1848 + 2 = 1873 ?? ;)

From what the commenters before me have written, I would consider the scenario where the 1848 revolution succeeds in Germany but not in France.

That would fulfill the desired conditions for some time.

I meant the OP conditions of having it be the situation post 1871.

Fair point, but you don't a Democratic Germany might affect Napoleon in any way?

Indeed it might. The two most likely things to happen IMO are:

1. Louis-Napoleon doesn't become Emperor in the first place as a succesfull Frankfurt Revolution alters the election in France/dissuades Napoleon III from taking the throne.

2. With Germany unified earlier, and in a manner that reduces the power of both Bismarck and Prussia relative to the other states, the Franco-Prussian War and some of the Franco-German antagonism do not occur, thus the exact sequence of events that led to Napoleon's abdication do not happen, or they happen at a different time with much the same results in terms of setting up a new republic.
 
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