DBWI: Second French Revolution?

What if after the Restoration at the end of the French Revolutionary War, a second revolution happened to topple the monarchy again, rather than have if survive to the present day like it did in OTL? How might such a revolution come about, and what would its effect on Europe and the world be?
 
What if after the Restoration at the end of the French Revolutionary War, a second revolution happened to topple the monarchy again, rather than have if survive to the present day like it did in OTL? How might such a revolution come about, and what would its effect on Europe and the world be?

Well, lots of things could happen, really, but I do wonder how colonialism might have been handled-IOTL, the monarchy absolutely did not want to do what the British did, and turn some of their most successful colonies into Commonwealths(although Canada eventually left the British geopolitical sphere altogether, due to proximity to America), or what the Dutch Republic tried for a time, and assimilated their colonies into being part of Holland itself- and that unfortunately led to relations with their Sub-Saharan African subjects being little better than with Germany's prior to their Revolution, amongst other things(such as the massacres in the former British protectorate of Dahomey in the 1880s), whereas the Dutch and the British would be later regarded as the most respectful of the colonizers(now, granted, even these two nations weren't without their faults and foul-ups, but still.....).
 
A second French revolution is ASB, at least with a PoD after the restoration. Louis XVII, ' the miracle child', was beloved by all his subjects, and even die-hard republicans admitted that the Constitution he midwifed and signed met the ideal of the Republic while serving as a shield against its demagogic excesses while he was a symbol of continuity and safety for all clerical reactionists. He was the perfect merging of a monarchist line with a republican upbriging

In order to get a second French revolution, you need to avoid him becoming crowned. Maybe kill him as a child before the revolution. That would kill all the direct line bourbons, as his uncles went to the guillotine, so the crown may fall to Orleans. Now that could indeed lead to a second revolution very quickly, given his blood-thirsty madness (A good thing the brood of Children Louis XVII had made sure he went further and further from the throne)
 
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