AHC: French Monarchy, German Republic

Challenge: With a POD between 1850 and 1870, have France stay a monarchy and have Germany become a republic by 1871.
 
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Do you mean our POD can be at any point between 1850 and 1870, or that the entire thing has to happen withing those years?
 
Keeping France a monarchy is relativly easy: Just make Napoleon III a bit less stupid! More military reforms and no excessive adventure in Mexico can lead to the Second French Empire surviving after his death. Making Germany a republic is harder... Germany was somewhat reactionary during that period, excluding maybe the Rhineland. So the only way I can imagine the monarchies in Germany falling is a massive scandal involving most major German monarchs, most importantly the King of Prussia. If the North German Federation already exists, that MIGHT lead to it becoming a republic.
 
The plausibility of this depends on whether you actually mean 'stay a monarchy' or just 'be a monarchy'. If you mean that France has to stay under the Bonapartes, I doubt it; that would require French victory in the Franco-Prussian War or the avoidance of that war altogether, and in either of those scenarios there wouldn't be a Germany as we understand it. If you mean that France merely has to have a monarchy, that's easy. Kill off the Comte de Chambord after the Legitimist-Orléanist agreement (perhaps to stay within the boundaries of this scenario he can die of a disease that he catches in 1869), and you can have King Louis-Philippe of an Orléanist monarchy.

As for a German republic, this depends on SvoHljott's question. If it's just the PoD that has to be in that time, the easy solution would be to have history go roughly like OTL, leading to the collapse of the German monarchy and the birth of the Weimar Republic. But if there has to be a German republic by 1870, I have no idea how to accomplish that.

Alternatively, we could try to do something wacky with the revolutions of 1848 succeeding somehow, but I prefer the dead-Comte-de-Chambord scenario above.

{edit} I don't think we can change the personal nature of Napoleon III with a PoD after he was born and raised. And as for a scandal, I don't know whether it would have been enough to topple the German monarchies, but Wilhelm I might help you there: he was a barely-controllable eccentric whom Bismarck had to keep on a short leash, more belligerent than his famous grandson in temperament, and he genuinely wanted to annex the Habsburg empire once he'd won the Austro-Prussian War (Bismarck managed to stop him), so he's exactly the sort of personality who might create a royal scandal.
 
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France staying a monarchy is quite simple, either Napoleon III swallows his pride and ignores the Ems Dispatch thus avoiding the Franco-Prussian War and stays on the throne or the Count of Chambord suffers a fatal accident and the Count of Paris is restored to the throne in late 1870. Germany becoming a republic between 1850 and 1870 on the other hand is next to impossible to achieve, the 1848 revolution had been thoroughly crushed and its more radical proponents, preferring a republic over a monarchy, either killed, imprisoned or driven into exile by 1850 and republican sentiments wouldn't have been by far strong enough to overthrow all of the more than 30 monarchs in the different german states anyway.

If Germany can become a republic later the best way to go would be to kill off the Count of Chambord either by illness or accident, have the Count of Paris restored to the throne as King of the French and still have Germany lose TTL's Great War analogue after which it would become a republic just like Perfidious Albion suggested.
 
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