French Revolution if ARW is British victory

samcster94

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I personally think the French Revolution would have happened anyway, but the American Revolutionary War likely made it happen more quickly. What if the British had won that war instead???
 
I think the Ancien Regime was too rotten to save with such a late POD, with finances having been down the toilet even before the ARW, the ridiculous extravagance, the discontent emerging bourgeois class, and the Enlightenment influence all having been in play before this period. I imagine it would be somewhat delayed due to finances being slightly better, beginning (for instance) in 1798-1799 during the famine of that period.
 
I think the Revolution would be even more violent, with all that money spent on American revolutionaries being absolutely useless.
 

samcster94

Banned
I think the Ancien Regime was too rotten to save with such a late POD, with finances having been down the toilet even before the ARW, the ridiculous extravagance, the discontent emerging bourgeois class, and the Enlightenment influence all having been in play before this period. I imagine it would be somewhat delayed due to finances being slightly better, beginning (for instance) in 1798-1799 during the famine of that period.
They also had lost most of Canada in the process too(and much of India). It wasn't like France was in good shape to begin with(they already had gone decades with poor leadership) and most of the cultural changes that made it possible had already happened.
 
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