AHC: French Revolution leads to stable French Republic

Sulemain

Banned
Nitpicking, but Jacobites and Jacobins are two totally different groups of people. Jacobites were the Scottish supporters of the Stuart dynasty. Jacobins were the French republican club (the name is not translated in English).

FWIW, there were (and are) English and Irish Jacobites as well.

To this day, they do not recognise the legitimacy of the United Kingdom.
 

Sulemain

Banned
Could the Republic have avoided war, even had reasonable relations with Britain?

It really depends on what you mean by "Republic", because Republic covers a multitude of sins. There are some French "Republics" I can imagine surviving, and some that I cannot imagine doing so.
 
You are both right or wrong.

Theoretically you are right.

However factually you are wrong because if what you said had happened, then the french monarchy would not have been abolished.

The civil constitution of the clergy was enforced under the monarchy.
The war was started against the monarchy.

It is because of these these two events and because of the revolutionary process itself (where more radical politicians did outbid the moderates of the eve) that the rampant opposition between Louis XVI and the majority in the national assembly reached breaking point.
A monarchy in name only, Louis XVI was more a prisoner than a king during that one year
 
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