Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy
Banned
Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to make present-day France a republic with a POD after the crowning of Napoleon III.
Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to make present-day France a republic with a POD after the crowning of Napoleon III.
"DB" means "Double Blind" -- it denotes a roleplay thread where we pretend to be from an alternate timeline speculating whether something which actually happened in OTL was plausible or not. So in this thread we'd be roleplaying as people from a TL where France never went republican again after Napoleon III -- and in referencing our own ATL "history" we build a monarchist-France TL from scratch. DB threads can be quite fun when done properly; they can also be really annoying when people don't take them seriously or don't pay attention to what someone's said before.I'm sorry, but it's not a challenge, it's a reality...
Of course, you have the III Republic, the IV Republic and the V Republic and "L'Etat Français" in 1940-1942.
IC: Eh, this is kind of hard. Napoleon III was a fairly popular leader, especially once he liberalized towards the end of his reign. Then again he wasn't particularly unpopular to begin with (he did after all successfully launch a coup against himself and his government). Maybe if he botches the Franco-Austrian War / 2nd War of Italian Independence his reign won't last his beyond his earlier more conservative (and more unpopular) years. Honestly I'm not too good with 19th century France. The victories of 20th century France are much more impressive.
If France had lost the First Great War against Prussia and Austria, then it might have gone republican. After that, the monarchy was too entrenched anyone to dislodge it. Besides, the European theatre of the 2nd Great War was too one sided to threaten France.