AHC Thirty Years of Terror

The challenge is for the French Revolution to have a 30 decade reign of Terror which alienates not only the Catholic Church and the old aristocracy, but even the peasants and make them remember their famine under Louis XVI fondly (by comparison...). In other words, the Republic is despised by 3/4 of France's population by the time this is all over and almost every rural-dweller there is.

Obviously one problem is that such a regime isn't very stable. The challenge involves keeping internal threats at bay with fear.

As for external threats? Eh, find some way to get Maria Antoinette and her children out of the dodge so the Austrians only have a "this revolution is dangerous" reason and not a "must save family" reason to go to France (the latter is more urgent and demands immediate action, the former can wait for cooperation from Britain, which in OTL for whatever reason did jack to save the French royals). Prussia and the others can be handled with OTL battles, or some variation thereof.

Bonus points for making this guy's son http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Joseph,_Prince_of_Condé the rightful salic-law heir (which you'll need to do some creative killing off of the House of Bourbon and Orleans)
 
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