DBWI: No Second French Revolution

As we all know, France went through the "Second French Revolution" in 1921 which resulted in the French Third Republic being forced to flee to Algeria as the French Popular Republic took over the mainland of France, but what if there was no Second French Revolution? What PODs might be needed for such an occurance? How would it impact the world?
 
As we all know, France went through the "Second French Revolution" in 1921 which resulted in the French Third Republic being forced to flee to Algeria as the French Popular Republic took over the mainland of France, but what if there was no Second French Revolution? What PODs might be needed for such an occurance? How would it impact the world?
I guess if you can end ww1 early France will be more stable. Less dead, less material losses, less debts are a good thing.
 
Have the French Army actually listen to their mutinying soldiers, thus butterflying away the rank and file's support for the Communards.

Also have the Communards adopt more Marxist Leninist policies instead of Marxian Syndicalism and Democracy.
 
So, why do you think was the Second French Revolution successful and what would a failed Second French Revolution result in? A Fascist France akin to the Algerian dictatorship?
 
So, why do you think was the Second French Revolution successful and what would a failed Second French Revolution result in? A Fascist France akin to the Algerian dictatorship?

We would likely see France ruled by Action Francaise.

(OOC: dont want to see Communist France turn into a Soviet Dicatorship, so lets try to make it less authoritarian, though it can still have problems.)
 
As for why the French Revolution succeeded, I believe it is because the majority of the Army's rank and file, as well as many officers such as Catroux and De Gaulle, supported Communism, largely because of the horrors of World War 1 and the French Republic's almost horrifying lack of care for the loves of thier soldiers and workers. Sure, there was that large White insurgency in the Vendee region, but aside from that area much of France, including the giant industrial fortresses of Lyon and Paris, were firmly in favor of the Communards.
 
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Well the Second revolution started with Claude Chauveau then minister for industry saying to former soldiers that were asking to get their jobs back (those men were either returning from german prison camp of from french manadged armistice garnisson that were nothing more than prisson camp manadged by the french administration under german control): "The french republic should adopt the roman army way...I mean we should execute one soldier out of ten of you ugly bunch of traitor and loser and coward and that will still be too kind".
The riots that followed are often considered as the start of the revolution. If Claude Chauveau have keept his mouth shut or have been killed in that riot, the rumor that he had been proposed as a vice prime minister 5 years after will not have had such an impact. I am convinced that a small butterfly may have changed the course of the history. Now there is also the algerian problems with the segregation and the 4 class of citizen in the french republic (in north africa) I think that the french population (mainly the soldiers and officers that have fought next to agerian troop) may not have agree.
 
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I'm interested in events in Africa. On the one hand, it provoked a colonial redistribution, on the other hand it helped the development of independent states.
 
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