Challenge/Request: Alternate France with PoD of 1792

To make my TL State of Nova Scotia more interesting as well as more interactive and shared, I'm asking anyone to come up with a TL that gives us an alternate France today with a PoD of no earlier than 1792. You don't have to outline all the way to present day, just enough to cement a truly alternate France by today.

I don't really care what it turns into, though a Constitutional Monarchy would be pretty cool, I think, just as long as it's interesting. And the PoD doesn't have to be in 1792, that's just the earliest it can be. This is the height of the French Revolution and a few years before Napoleon gets big, so I think we can come up with some truly creative things.

If I see something I like, I may incorporate it into my TL. Thanks beforehand to contributers!
 
If it weren't before 1792 you could bypass the Revolution itself with some more minor reforms and eventually get a quasitheocratic monarchical France. Sadly, this option was just made hella harder. :(

You could get Boulanger's coup to work, or some similar military dictatorship (Cavaignac comes to mind, as does a slightly althistorical Foch or de Gaulle). Those are a good deal later than your PoD though. For lulz, you could just keep the monarchy around, which can be done any number of ways.
 
This is one me and my friend, who loves French revolutionary history, came up with one history lesson.

The French royal family manages to escape from Switzerland, with the aid of the British and Spanish, who see the young Republic as a real threat to their authority. Marie Antoinette, and her daughter Marie-Therese flees to Naples, while the rest of the royal family is set up as the Kingdom of France in exile in Louisiana, established as a puppet state by the English and Spanish to curb the growing influence of the United States.

Revolutionary chaos goes on, and in 1798, Napoleon heads east to Egypt, pausing en route to sieze and annexe Naples and Sicily, and capturing Marie Antoinette. In order to consolidate support, the general marries Marie-Therese, in order to "neutralise royalist dissenters". With the support of Naples and Sicily, as well as the Austrians, plus some butterflies, the Egyptian expedition is a success. Napoleon returns to France and is proclaimed Emperor before going a-conquering around Europe. An attempted Royalist coup sponsored by the British ends in disaster. Napoleon's last campaign is in 1818, when he successfully captures Constantinople. Along the way, he has himself crowned Holy Roman Emperor first, and then Eastern Roman Emperor in Constantinople. The Ottomans, defeated by the French on multiple fronts collapse into chaos for a bit, before refocusing on the East, and consolidating their grip on Arabia, and defeating attempted Armenian revolts with British support. In 1820, Napoleon makes peace with the British, and hands over some Caribbean islands as a gesture of goodwill. The British are vaguelly satisified with the Atlantic domination they have thus achieved, with the US neutralised by the Louisianan allies of London. Hannover stays British too, and Prussia and Austria consolidate effectively to provide a counterweight to French power on the Continent. Napoleon dies in 1823, and passes the Imperial throne to his calmer son Joseph, who his crowned Emperor of the French and Romans.

This timeline is almost certainly very ASB, but boy was it fun to come up with. Someone tell me what's wrong with it, I'd be intrigued to know :p

 
During WW1, instead of Russia dissolving into a Communist Revolution, maybe France could. I know several of the Western European nations had at least a smattering of Communist(ic) Parties.
 

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Have Action Francise take over. I did it in a recent alt-history game. A Monarchical, Fascist France, wholly concentrated on Empire, was fun and interesting to play.
 
In 1796?? A city in the south of France [coast] revolted and raised the Imperial Banner, Napoleon as a Artillery Capitan, lead the attack that broke the Rebels.
This is were he got the Fame that allowed him to Lead the Eygpt Expedition.

However a Chance [bane of Balladeers and Poets] Musket Shot could have taken Napoleon out of the picture. the Attack Fails, The Imperials and British Counterattack is successful.
With a firm beachhead, the allies move North, By 1798 the revolution is over, The King is restored,
 
Is there any way to have some sort of monarchy reinstated post-Napoleon? That is, have Napoleon (I) and his Empire come and go and end up with a Constitutional Monarchy anyway.
 
Is there any way to have some sort of monarchy reinstated post-Napoleon? That is, have Napoleon (I) and his Empire come and go and end up with a Constitutional Monarchy anyway.
They did that twice brah but it didn't work out either time. Restored Bourbon monarchy had a constitution - the Charter of 1814 - and it was removing that constitution (the July Ordinances) that led to Charles X's removal and the ascension of the Citizen King. That King granted a new constitution, the 1830 Charter, and it was the document under which France was ruled until 1848.
 
A few little ideas--Napoleon becomes influential in Paris earlier.
The child Louis survives.
Ben Franklin died in 1790; is it too much of a stretch to have him live two years longer and be in Paris when the Revolution breaks out? He might have some influence on that.
 
In 1796?? A city in the south of France [coast] revolted and raised the Imperial Banner, Napoleon as a Artillery Capitan, lead the attack that broke the Rebels.
This is were he got the Fame that allowed him to Lead the Eygpt Expedition.

However a Chance [bane of Balladeers and Poets] Musket Shot could have taken Napoleon out of the picture. the Attack Fails, The Imperials and British Counterattack is successful.
With a firm beachhead, the allies move North, By 1798 the revolution is over, The King is restored,

That was Toulon, and yes it was 1796. Napoleon couldn't have been killed by a musket shot at this point - a musket just didn't have the range. I guess it's possible that he could have been hit by a stray cannon shot though.

The thing about Toulon is that the British/Spanish didn't know how to handle the situation. They missed a chance to capture the French Mediterranean Fleet as they couldn't agree how the ships would be divided. Both countries acknowledged that they should have joint command, but that meant they found it hard to mount a joint effort, as neither country appointed an officer to head both countries' forces at the city. And ultimately, neither country was really willing to commit enough troops to properly stop the Revolution - by this stage everyone thought that the Revolution would falter and a restoration would happen (other countries were mobilising troops to fight through Germany anyway). I think ultimately, they just didn't care about Toulon enough. The allied response there was half-hearted at best, and that's a real exaggeration.
 
Wikipedia has a list or births, deaths and historical events in 1792. Take your pick. :D

The man who became Pope Pius IX isn't born, or is born with some interesting disability which affects him but doesn't incapacitate him. He either doesn't become Pope, or he does and his disability affects his decisions and attitudes as Pope.

Margaret Ann Neve was born this year and died at age 110. She had an interest in literature; what if she had been an author, and living in 3 different centuries affects her perspective?

Leopold II, George Mason and John Paul Jones died; what if they'd lived longer?

Could John Paul Jones have been President? What would he have to do with France in an ATL?
 
The first thing that came to my head was a Napoleanic monarchy. There are a hundred millions PODs for this. Maybe Napolean accepts peace before the coalition marches into France, leaving him without a major Empire, but still with France. Maybe Napolean II isn't caputre, and negotiates a peace with the Prussian, surviving his monarchy. Maybe the May 1877 crisis is averted, and royalists get a monarchy restored. 3/100,000,000
 
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