DBWI: No "Bonaparte Restoration"

Charles, Prince Napoleon, distinguished himself during WWII. Intitially forbidden from joining the French Military by Daladier (originally he was exiled in Belgium as all family members of the french monarchies were) he assumed a fake name (Louis Blanchard) and joined the French Foreign Legion where he served in North Africa.

After his North African campaign service Charles Bonaparte went on to join the French Resistance. He was nearly captured by the Germans crossing the Pyrenees as he attempted to join up with DeGaulle in London, and it was through this relationship and his amazing story that he would go on to be De Gaulle's successor in 1969 - an achievement that would go on to be referred to as the "Second Bonaparte Restoration" in France.

What if Bonaparte had never become President of France?
 
like people says three is the magic number,

yeah it would be easy to butterfly the econd Bonaparte Restoration, the french government could have refused his candidacy for the the French Foreign Legion, he could have be captured, ... which made it popular, we just need to see the number of movies on him.

Without him all the french policy would be different.

After the war he refused to join the party of De Gaulle (even if he kept friendly relation with him ) and create his own party of center-left vampirizing many parties and establishing the famous french tripartism bewteen Gaullist, Communist and Bonapartiste even if many people complains today about this tripartism that stifles the emergence of new parties, they still lay the foundations of the modern France especially in Corsica thanks to him the island is nowadays a technological hub, and a bridge between the European France and the french department of Algeria, he was a pioneer of the technological revolution.

Also without him France would also be less centralist and more liberal, without him the others party would not be vampirized and they could have counterbalanced or mitigated the centralizing policy of the Communists and the Gaullists, the tree party also hated the liberalist preventing their emergence.

He was wary of the European Communities and prevented his development, setting up a "blocking policy still relevant today, without him maybe a sort of european union could have existed.
 
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