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French president Felix Faure died on Feburary 16, 1899 on the heels of the Fashoda incident. At this time France and the UK still experienced tense tensions between their burgeoning empires. His death was, at best, sensational as it occurred in flagrante delicto. The lady involved wrote in her memoirs that a German was most interested in some of his personal belongings. Orleanist and Bonapartist factions were preparing to invade and establish their own governments while the Dreyfuss affair was also in full swing. German hatred was to the point of being irrational as well, irredentialism running at full pitch while French industry had leads in certain areas that it would not retain even a few years later. Could this one man's death under slightly different circumstances cause France to implode and, if so, what are the possible results?
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