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Ok, so bear with me a little, as this discussion is a little different from what we normally do:

Imagine an ATL that’s OTL up at least through 1805. You only know two things about the century that follows - first, that there is no Bourbon Restoration or Orleanist Monarchy; second, that by 1905 France has a (more or less) fully functioning republican government.

With only this information, what can we speculate about how France and the world understands the legacy of the French Revolution TTL? And how does this difference in historical consciousness affect French politics in the 20th Century and beyond (eg what can we say about the intellectuals traditions of the French Right TTL compared to OTL, considering any royalist sentiment can only look to the Ancien Regime)? Again, doing all this without speculating on what was happening in these years beyond the absence of a restoration, what else can we infer from those conclusions (about western politics and philosophy more generally, etc)?
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