DBWI : What if Napoléon didn't died in Egypt?

OTL, Napoléon died in Egypt because of the plague and Kléber had to abandon Egypt in 1802 (admittedly, he didn't controlled much at this time). But if he lived, could have it kept the Egypt French, maybe having an earlier French Syria? Or at least, saving his army up to the return in France?
 
Napoléon who's not very known today which is a shame, saved the day during the Italian campaign, which was at the beginning just a fake one.
The fact he and his men weren't there probably caused the advance of Suvorov to Lyon where he was finally defeated.
Politics in France really were messy at the time and a lot of things could have happened.
 

Anaxagoras

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Napoleon's victory in Italy during 1796-7 was one of the great campaigns of military history, and the fact that he conquered Egypt so swiftly also speaks volumes for his ability. Although things were tough for the French when he died of the plague, it seems at least possible that Napoleon might have been able to keep control of Egypt.

At the time, according to some sources, Napoleon was considering converting to Islam and cutting loose from the French Republic. That would have been interesting, to say the least.
 
Why do you call him Napoléon ? His name is Bonaparte. Do you refer to Washington as "George" or Caesar as Jules ?
 
Why do you call him Napoléon ? His name is Bonaparte. Do you refer to Washington as "George" or Caesar as Jules ?

Likely to differentiate him from his better known brother, Lucien. Speaking of whom, without Napoleon's sudden death does Lucien still become the Dictateur of the republic? Especially if, as Anaxagoras suggests, his brother repudiates both his faith and his republicanism and establishes his own separate kingdom in the Near East.
 
This. But not only.

Also because "Général Bonaparte" is a formal name, even during his campaign the use was took to call him "Napoléon", familiar way, by his friends and, thanks to Benoit's opera "Napoléon in Egypt" the use was widespread.
 
his brother repudiates both his faith and his republicanism and establishes his own separate kingdom in the Near East.

This was, at the contrary, pure Bourbon's propaganda forged during the uprising of Lyons in 1801 to discreditate the republicans and the Bonaparte's family.

I'm surprised that such lies reached Louisiana. That said, St-Louis is known for being a royalist hold. It makes somewhat sense.
 
Likely to differentiate him from his better known brother, Lucien. Speaking of whom, without Napoleon's sudden death does Lucien still become the Dictateur of the republic? Especially if, as Anaxagoras suggests, his brother repudiates both his faith and his republicanism and establishes his own separate kingdom in the Near East.

Lucien was much less popular with the army than his brother which probably lead to the coup d'état of Fouché. I wonder what would have become France if Fouché didn't take the power, many people don't like him, often for the late part of his dictatorship, when the regime really was corrupt and cruel, but he managed to clean the mess let by Lucien's megalomania.
If Napoléon took the power, I don't think any of that would happened and he would probably lead to a restoration.
 
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