Louis of Bourgoune and his family don't contract measles

What if Louis, duke of Burgundy and grandson of Louis XIV, his wife and children did not contract measles in 1712 and die? Would Burgundy make a better King than his younger son Louis of Anjou, or would Louis of Brittany? How might this impact the longevity of the Bourbon Dynasty?
 
Burgundy was slavishly devoted to Adelaide, he called her 'his Draco' (after the Athenian lawgiver), so I think she might end up running the show as a sort of king in petticoats. As to Bretagne, he's pretty much a blank slate. Hell, even OTL Louis XV would be different due to his immediate family surviving. Half of the reason that he became what he was, was due to no one understanding his desire to recreate that family closeness that he had never had. - from Antonia Fraser's Love and Louis XIV

Secondly, shortly after he became king in his own right (1722) he tried to remedy the financial situation of France by laying off a quarter of the palace staff. He was then informed that this was not a good move as these men's families were now lost without a source of income (no one seemed to be thinking of the French crown to be unable to support many superfluous positions). So, Louis promptly hired them back on. As a result of this, he began to be of the opinion that everyone else always knew better than he did, and that whatever he did was wrong or didn't matter... - from Nancy Mitford's Madame de Pompadour
 
Burgundy was slavishly devoted to Adelaide, he called her 'his Draco' (after the Athenian lawgiver), so I think she might end up running the show as a sort of king in petticoats. As to Bretagne, he's pretty much a blank slate. Hell, even OTL Louis XV would be different due to his immediate family surviving. Half of the reason that he became what he was, was due to no one understanding his desire to recreate that family closeness that he had never had. - from Antonia Fraser's Love and Louis XIV

Secondly, shortly after he became king in his own right (1722) he tried to remedy the financial situation of France by laying off a quarter of the palace staff. He was then informed that this was not a good move as these men's families were now lost without a source of income (no one seemed to be thinking of the French crown to be unable to support many superfluous positions). So, Louis promptly hired them back on. As a result of this, he began to be of the opinion that everyone else always knew better than he did, and that whatever he did was wrong or didn't matter... - from Nancy Mitford's Madame de Pompadour

Well I agree that Adelaide would essentially be an earlier, more successful version of Marie Antoinette and we do have some idea what Bourgogne's reign, or at least his early reign would look like. From Wikipedia:

"The Duke of Burgundy was influenced by the dévots and was surrounded by a circle of people known as the faction de Bourgogne (Burgundy's faction), which was most notably made up of his old tutor Fénelon, his old governor Paul de Beauvilliers, Duke of Saint-Aignan and his brother-in-law Charles Honoré d'Albert, Duke of Chevreuse, as well as the renowned memorialist, Louis de Rouvroy, Duke of Saint-Simon. These high-ranking aristocrats sought a return to a monarchy less absolute and less centralised, with more powers granted to the individual provinces. They perceived that government should work through councils and intermediary organs between the king and the people. These intermediary councils were to be made up not by commoners from the bourgeoisie (as the ministers appointed by Louis XIV) but by aristocrats who perceived themselves as the representatives of the people and would assist the king in governance and the exercise of power. Had the Duke of Burgundy succeeded to the throne, he may have applied this concept of monarchy."

So we would probably see "Louis XV"'s early reign look similar to the Regency of Philippe II d'Orleans. Though considering how crappy those ideas went for le Regent, I have a feeling that we would quickly see return to Louis XIV's style of governing. And I had no clue about that fact with Louis XV. I mean I got the idea from other books that he was best at delaying and dragging his feet but not to that extreme. So maybe the Crown's finances won't be as screwed up here. Really it depends on Queen Marie-Adelaide, not her husband or his advisers.
 
Adelaide has one thing working against her: she's Italian. In France at the time, "Italian" was basically a term for anything bad - among other things homosexuality. And France has never liked her Italian queens too much - Catherine and Marie de Medici anyone?

So, I think Adelaide might be branded as the new Catherine if it becomes known that she's the one actually wearing the breeches in the relationship. I can see several Louis XVI-era style cartoons being published (simply with impotence in the bedroom being replaced with impotence in politics).

Just a thought
 
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