An aborted French revolution

Is it possible for the revolution to ultimately fail and have the monarchy suvive in France yet still have Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette both be executed . If so who would be the most likely successor to the throne? Would it have possibly transformed the monarchy into a constitutional one (sort of meeting half way with the revolutionaries) or would it still stay as an absolute monarchy trying to crack down on the treasoners? Also how would it have failed, perhaps if some foreign power had been let in to help deal with the revolutionaries?

I don't really know much about the period so it would be interesting to see what people think. Thanks in advance.
 
Is it possible for the revolution to ultimately fail and have the monarchy suvive in France yet still have Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette both be executed . If so who would be the most likely successor to the throne? Would it have possibly transformed the monarchy into a constitutional one (sort of meeting half way with the revolutionaries) or would it still stay as an absolute monarchy trying to crack down on the treasoners? Also how would it have failed, perhaps if some foreign power had been let in to help deal with the revolutionaries?

I don't really know much about the period so it would be interesting to see what people think. Thanks in advance.

Well a constitutional monarchy with Louis XVI DID happen in our timeline, before the revolution got out of control again after a few scares caused him to leave the country. Alternately Philippe Egalite could become a constitutional monarch.

If you have an earlier POD where Louis XVI was smarter, he could have co-opted the revolution under his leadership against the nobility, and become an "Enlightened" absolute monarch, similar to what happened in Prussia.
 
After the executions of Louis (XVI) and Marie Antoinette Capet and the end of the Reign of Terror, their son Louis-Charles Capet is put into the custody of General Marie-Joseph Motier Lafayette (who in TTL has not been captured by the Austrians) and lives in his household, where he is treated well and thus not only survives, but is ingrained with the ideals of the moderate revolutionaries as well. Later he attends both the civil and military branches of the École polytechnique in Paris.

In the april 1797 elections the moderate royalists gain a majority and are able to avert the coup d'état of the republican directors and Generals Hoche and Bonaparte with the help of Lafayette. It is agreed that Louis-Charles shall become King of the French at the age of 18 and that General Lafayette will act as regent until that time. He forms a triumvirate of Consuls with the moderately royalist directors Carnot and Francois Barthélemy with himself as First Consul.

Upon coming of age, Louis-Charles is sworn in as King of the French before a joint Session of the the Assemblée Nationale and the Senate in 1803. To demonstrate that he is not simply succeeding his father and that an entirely new era has begun he chooses the regal name of Louis-Carles 1er instead of Louis XVII. Upon his accession the title of Consul for life is created for Lafayette, who later resigns and becomes president of the Senate instead.
 
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