Idea: a different inspiration for the French Revolution

IOTL the French supported the American revolutionaries against British and American Loyalists. It both aggravated the (already abysmal) state of their finances and proved that founding a new republic was possible in that day and time.
Could the reverse happen? Ancien régime France bankrupts itself by supporting a radical revolution in the British Isles, hoping to turn the old foe into a key ally, only to succumb itself to revolution a few years later. Meanwhile, the House of Hannover still rules British America.
Is it plausible? How can it be done?
 

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I don't think this is possible, just because any movement being backed by the French automatically invalidates it in British public opinion. Indeed, you can see this in the OTL American Revolutionary War: while the colonists fought alone, many British politicians defended their cause in Parliament, and some generals and admirals refused orders to fight them; however, as soon as France allied with the Americans, those people mostly fell into line in the war effort, viewing the Americans as having betrayed their cause of liberty by doing a deal with the devil with absolutist, tyrannical, Catholic (in British political discourse of the time these words were practically synonymous) France.
 
The same for France. Admitting that the king would have supported any British movment, you would have the nobles pressing for a change, with a noble council around the king in order to advise him. And letting the British fighting each other, counting the points.
 
If there was a revolution in Britain, France would be full of British refugees. The French people would not want to start a revolution that would displace their own people in a similar way. If you chose a more distant country, I think it would be plausible.
 
The same for France. Admitting that the king would have supported any British movment, you would have the nobles pressing for a change, with a noble council around the king in order to advise him. And letting the British fighting each other, counting the points.

If the French would react so badly to supporting a British movement, how did the Kings get away with funding the Jacobites for so many years?
 
If the French would react so badly to supporting a British movement, how did the Kings get away with funding the Jacobites for so many years?

Because it was for weakening the British monarchy. Make them having a nice civil war, and we'll have a white card for our colonial and european policy.

Also, at this period, the British/French opposition wasn't that an issue : the Jacobits could make good allies and eventually puppets, and allowed to expand the SoI of Louis XIV by promoting catholicism and absolutism.

I'm pretty sure a British Revolution wouldn't promote these.
 
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