AHC: France is absolutist monarchy in 1830

Is it possible to get France to remain absolutist in 1830? This would work either by hanging on continuously, or through a revolutionary regime having an interlude and the monarchy coming back, or through limits being put on the monarchy that are subsequently overturned.

Conditions: No POD before 1765
Wiggle room if needed: Some limits on the monarchy, but very few
Bonus points: Same situation, but ten/twenty/thirty years later
 
Well, the most obvious solutions would be to made a puppetized-France by the Coalised, with the Revolutionary wars failing quickly in 1792. Louis XVI could be even reinstaured, but at the cost of a France that is only the shadow of what it was in 1789.
 
A few years leeway. Fine then in 1758 Catherine the Great lives longer. With a three fronted assault Prussia falls by 1760. Meanwhile in America William Pitt meets an unfortunate end while The Iroquois throw their lot in with france.
With nearly all natives on their side France can last longer. Once Prussia capitulates then Britain will sue for peace and Prussia will be partitioned. With the fall of Prussia Britain becomes Isolated on the continent. Peace is restored. Prussia is forced to pay undermines to france fixing the treasury.
Plus France retains southern India.
By 1765 in otl France still controls Louisiana and Quebec.

Anyway what do you think?
 
What about, no 1814 Charter, or the Charter repealed for good in the aftermath of Hundred Days? Remember that while United Kingdom did have Parliament, Prussia, Austria and Russia were all absolutist when they conquered France in 1814 and 1815....
 
A few years leeway. Fine then in 1758 Catherine the Great lives longer. With a three fronted assault Prussia falls by 1760. Meanwhile in America William Pitt meets an unfortunate end while The Iroquois throw their lot in with france.
With nearly all natives on their side France can last longer. Once Prussia capitulates then Britain will sue for peace and Prussia will be partitioned. With the fall of Prussia Britain becomes Isolated on the continent. Peace is restored. Prussia is forced to pay undermines to france fixing the treasury.
Plus France retains southern India.
By 1765 in otl France still controls Louisiana and Quebec.

Anyway what do you think?

It was Elizabeth, but yes. Britain would have to divert a lot of energy to building an Austrian-British axis to counteract Russia and France had the 7YW gone the way it should have in most sensible universes.
 
Wondering if an ARW that the French stayed out of, and failed as a result*, would be able to delay the need for an Estates General, and hence the French Revolution, long enough to meet the OP...

*(PoD at Saratoga 1778)
 
Prussia is forced to pay undermines to france fixing the treasury.
Plus France retains southern India.
By 1765 in otl France still controls Louisiana and Quebec.

Anyway what do you think?

Not convinced Prussia would pay France in these scenarios. Would revenues from her colonies really be enough to stave off the crisis? I think managing to get through the crisis somehow is needed.

It was Elizabeth, but yes. Britain would have to divert a lot of energy to building an Austrian-British axis to counteract Russia and France had the 7YW gone the way it should have in most sensible universes.

How receptive would Austria have been to a British alliance in this scenario?

Wondering if an ARW that the French stayed out of, and failed as a result*, would be able to delay the need for an Estates General, and hence the French Revolution, long enough to meet the OP...

*(PoD at Saratoga 1778)

Again, I don't think it's enough. I want a strong French monarchy to last many decades longer.
 
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