DBWI: French Insurrection successful?

What would the world be like if the ill-fated French Insurrection of 1789 was successful? Would Europe accept a constitutionalist monarchy based on British system(through they reformed into this by mid 1830s) or even French republicanism depending on how much of a revolution it is and would Republicanism have an audience outside the New World?

Would we even see a Franco-American alliance?

Or was the "Tennis Court Plot" chance of sucess ASB.
 
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What would the world be like if the ill-fated French Insurrection of 1789 was successful? Would Europe accept a constitutionalist monarchy based on British system(through they reformed into this by mid 1830s) or even French republicanism depending on how much of a revolution it is and would Republicanism have an audience outside the New World?

Would we even see a Franco-American alliance?

Or was the "Tennis Court Plot" chance of sucess ASB.

It could have worked hadn't Louis XVI gotten suddenly extremely sick. Louis XVI, unlike his brothers, was a weak king. He would've let it go its way.
 
It could have worked hadn't Louis XVI gotten suddenly extremely sick. Louis XVI, unlike his brothers, was a weak king. He would've let it go its way.

IMO it's a good thing they saw the writing on the wall, and gradually made the reforms to constitutional monarchy.
 
IMO it's a good thing they saw the writing on the wall, and gradually made the reforms to constitutional monarchy.

OOC:Louis XVI' brothers were even more conservative than Louis XVI.They wouldn't have compromised.Besides,the revolt in 1789 was an attempt at getting a constitutional monarchy,if the monarchy had the revolt crushed,I don't Louis' ultra conservative brothers will just reform.
 
IMO it's a good thing they saw the writing on the wall, and gradually made the reforms to constitutional monarchy.

Of course those reforms still left the monarch's power intact, but curbed those of the aristocracy, especially with regards to their exemption from taxation. Constitutional to them meant putting those powers in an actual written constitution.

And it gave the illusion of the people having a voice, which surprisingly, worked! It helped that Louis XVI's grandson, Philip VII, was a really great king who managed like Augustus to pretend that it was constitutional when it really was not.
 
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