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This is Charles X the last true King of France (The usurper Louis-Philippe doesn't count). Assuming he had been watching the Revolutions and political developments in nations like Austria, Prussia, and Russia more closely and had kept his conservatism and Neo-Absolute vision of government, what could Charles X have done to restore Bourbon power. Could he have been more tactful by avoiding stuff like trying to reintroduce the royal touch and compensating the old landed elite? What could Charles X have done to lay the groundwork of the re empowerment of the monarchy? Could the new assembly be reduced into a rubber stamp like the Estates General? The French Monarchy face worse circumstances before this after all. The Carolingian Monarchy was very weak with the nobles having very little power.
They had a small fief with a single castle and were mostly ceremonial in power much like the Merovingians. The Capets however starting with Hugh Capet, were the Counts of Paris who gradually expanded French power and went on to centralize the state turning it into the juggernaut the dominate Europe for centuries. Leaders like Louis XI and Phillip II did a lot to build France up with their efforts culminating with the reign of Louis XVI. Charles's son the Duke of Berry was pretty popular. His eldest son Louis XIX also showed some military ability as he did command military regiments during the Napoleonic wars. He was also appointed head of the army before Napoleon's 100 Days. Could the French Monarchy have gradually reasserted itself in French society with something like the rise of Communism being used to reinstate a Neo-Absolutist government in power?
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