Talking about Napoleon's earlier death, is it possible Murat will stay king of Naples?
In OTL he managed to keep his position until 1815 after all.
Yup.
Can't believe I just found out about this bro. I have been waiting for this TL since you mentioned it in your Aerys fic.
Thanks! I'm glad you're enjoying this timeline.
Honestly i think one of napoleon's biggest mistakes was crowning himself emperor. I know that the prologue says it brought moderates to his side, but as first consul for life he already was the enlightened despot that moderates had always wanted and because he wasn't royalty he still had (at least some) republican support.
Keep in mind that the tl is told in the perspective of a Bonapartist, or at least someone sympathetic to his ideals of a fusion between the liberalism of the Revolution, the Enlightenment, and monarchy. While Napoleon wasn't royalty, he nearly could have won and secured his dynasty in otl. Other contemporary European dynasties were founded on less solid foundations, plus for example the Swedish royal family is of the House of Bernadotte, and they weren't royalty. I'm not sure how stable a Republic with Napoleon leading on for life would have been. For many at the time, the idea of a Republic was kinda tarnished due to the incompetence of the Revolutionary governments preceding Napoleon's, and France for example had a high monarchist tradition, not to mention that the precedent was already set that anyone popular with the army can coup the government like Napoleon did.
I don't think it would have been possible at the time for Napoleon to become like a Washington of the French Republic since the contemporary US had a strong institutions with a general understanding of the architects of its political system and Constitution to set a good precedent for the nation. Revolutionary France didn't have this. Had someone like Laffayette perhaps had taken power to stabilize it, with Napoleon coming in later, its likely that France would have had a modicum of political stability. Though with the Execution of the King, this polarized French society with many monarchists in the countryside going into open revolt in favor of the monarchy. Had Napoleon not crowned himself Emperor and ruled as Consort for life, its possible that the monarchy might have been restored
Observers at the time also noted how the change brought back the old decadent court life that didn't work as well or as smoothly as the consulate.
Napoleon should have been more Augustus than Caesar, and maintained the Republican façade.
But unlike Rome, France had many active monarchists who were conservative/liberal in outlook. Many of these people flocked to Napoleon after his proclamation of the Empire. Though I feel like you're gonna like this timeline as Napoleon II will be Augustus for France like how Napoleon was Caesar.
Nice update will next chapter cover flight of Eaglet and why Austria not supported the Eaglet in first place since if I'm not wrong he the Austrian emperor granson to be Napoleon successor
Yeah. The next few chapters will focus on the Bourbon Restoration and the Eaglet's life in the gilded cage that Metternich had setup for him.
I'm glad you're enjoying it, though as for my next set of update, I'll be focusing on updating my ASOIAF fics and my other Eastern Roman Timeline.