AHC: Have Prussia and Great Britain back the French Republic

TinyTartar

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The Republic has to behave moderately and not take any action against its upper classes, its rhetoric has to be a lot less extreme, and has to offer significant trade concessions to Britain.

Austria being a massive dick to Prussia might be enough to get Prussian cooperation. Having a Whig Ministry in Britain with personal ties to the French Revolutionaries would also help quite a bit. It has to be very Whiggish, and this can be accomplished by having the American Revolution go even more horribly for the British (NYC is stormed, Newport capitulates in '78, Gibraltar falls, etc.)
 
Have to agree with noscoper, the declaration of pilnitz that gave revolutionary France cause or pretext (whichever you choose) to declare war on Austria was mostly at Prussian instigation (the declaration dealt more with the Austro-Turkish was and Poland if I recall correctly than France)
 
Prussia maybe. It had been France's ally back in the Austrian Succession War, and could have been so again if they could agree on how to divvy up Austria.

Britain I don't see. Some third power would need to replace France as GB's principal naval and colonial rival in order for that to happen.
 
Not possible as long as Britain and Prussia retain their existing monarchical systems and the French kill their kings. To most of Europe, the French revolution was a regicidal cancer that needed to be stamped out. Period.

Perhaps have the revolutionaries not execute Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and other key figures of the ancien regime but just confiscate their properties and exile them. Britain, which already was having liberalizing tendencies, might not then be as threatened by a French republic.

Hell, even today the French Revolution and the guillotine sounds scary.
 
Not possible as long as Britain and Prussia retain their existing monarchical systems and the French kill their kings. To most of Europe, the French revolution was a regicidal cancer that needed to be stamped out. Period.

I'm not so sure. Istr reading somewhere that FtG's brother Henry favoured a French alliance. So if he'd been king instead of FW2 - -
 
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