Will Kürlich Kerl
Banned
Challenge: Instead of a French Revolution, have French go through a period of civil war, a late 18th Century version of the Syrian Civil War.
Challenge: Instead of a French Revolution, have French go through a period of civil war, a late 18th Century version of the Syrian Civil War.
Well, I wouldn't use Syria as a comparison. A civil war along the lines of the English Civil War in the mid 1600s is probably a better analogy.
What you need is for both the Estates General (parliament) and the King (royal) be able to raise and field their own armies. You need parliament to be well enough established that they just wouldn't fold, and you need the King or his heir outside the control of Parliament.
Best POD would when the King attempted to escape to Varennes in June 1791. It's entirely possible that having escaped, King Louis XVI could mobilize his own army and the National Constituent Assembly do the same. Presumably the existing French Army would split with some aligning with the Assembly.
At that point you have the Assembly in control of Paris, and the King in charge of some other area with the rest of the country in play.
Challenge: Instead of a French Revolution, have French go through a period of civil war, a late 18th Century version of the Syrian Civil War.
The French Revolution was a civil war.
Yes, but this time we are talking about the royalists following a living King Louis XVI instead of his martyred corpse.
Well, I wouldn't use Syria as a comparison. A civil war along the lines of the English Civil War in the mid 1600s is probably a better analogy.
France did go through a period of a brutal Civil warChallenge: Instead of a French Revolution, have French go through a period of civil war, a late 18th Century version of the Syrian Civil War.
That's basically the Vendee rebellionIt wasn't meant to be an analogy. I want an 18th Century version of the Syrian Civil War, with atrocities committed by both sides, and the war spreading to neighboring countries.
It wasn't meant to be an analogy. I want an 18th Century version of the Syrian Civil War, with atrocities committed by both sides, and the war spreading to neighboring countries.
That was the whole bejesusing real life French Revolution!
The French Revolution didn't have a Louis XVI who still wields absolute power three years into the revolution.
No, it didn't. It had the Convention and the Committee of Public Safety instead.
But they were products of the Revolution, not the Ancien Regime.
And they were every bit the assholes at least as much as the Bourbons.