Will Kürlich Kerl
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Challenge: With a POD after 1337, have Paris not be the de jure nor the de facto capital of France.
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Easy.
French monarchy manages to withstand the political crisis of XVIII well better (a shorter Louis XV's reign might help) and Versailles remains as OTL some sort of symbolical capital, while the executive and legislative power likely stand in Paris, and the judicial being more decentralized.
Challenge: With a POD after 1648, have Paris not be the de jure nor the de facto capital of France.
Okay. Longer WW2 or failed Overlord, Alger remains de facto capital of France longer.De facto capital. Original Post edited.
Well, French Kings were crowned at Reims. Surely it wouldn't be too hard to have one of them decide to establish his court there?
If Charlemange does not divide up his empire between his sons (or gives Lothaire only Italy) the capital of Francia can remain at Aquien (Aachen).
Technically he did, but that doesnt help when the empire was split in the next generation anyways.Unlikely, Frankish inheritance practices at that point said he had to split it up between his sons. The only way to get around that is if he only has one living heir.
Unlikely. Even if Paris end as a pile of rubble, Royalist would still use Paris as capital eventually (even if they can make a temporary de facto capital in Orléans or elsewhere). Look at Berlin : after WW2, it was basically a gigantic ruinfielf, and it didn't prevented DDR to put its capital there and BRD still considered it as at very last, the most probable future capital after reunification.. When they finally finish Paris off it is in ruins and nobody wants their capital in such an unstable ruin. The new Orleans monarchy is terrified of near communist Paris and establishes a new capital Orleans.
I'm not that expert on "dirty bomb", but I doubt it would be enough to raze a city of 12 millions up to the ground. It would certainly have really bad impact (loss of population due to fear more than explosion, economical impact), and would possibly make the use of a temporary capital necessary (likely in Versailles, or in the Parisian region nevertheless). But to say it would be enough to get rid of Paris as capital, I'm really not sure.Another way is a nuclear detonation in Central Paris from a terrorist groups or a separatist group or something. It's fairly easy to create a TL involving Paris nuked or bombed by suicide bombing etc...
Well, he had only one surviving heir at some point, but he had three surviving sons up to the late part of his reign : Charles, Pepin and Louis, which led him to split his kingdom in 806.Technically he did, but that doesnt help when the empire was split in the next generation anyways.