Maximilian leaves Mexico?

Intriguing. Now this has me wondering how could one avoid the whole mess and ensure Maximilian keeps his succession rights to Austria
Extremely easy: have the assassination attempt against Franz Joseph in 1853 succeed. It was an extremely close call OTL. Maximilian takes the throne, someone else goes to Mexico, provided France can find one.
 
I feel we might be getting off the point of him actually leaving Mexico instead of never going. If he leaves he is going to be humiliated. Though as the Bonnie Prince shows us, you can use men as cannon fodder to get the crown of another land then run off and still be famous. Though only in hindsight, really.

Perhaps Max and Juarez get some other referendum in favor of a republic? Not exactly likely, but Juarez did think that Max was a good person, though that he had to be executed due to all the blood spilled in the war and to keep Europeans from trying to impose another monarch on them. Max took it in good grace.

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Perhaps Max and Juarez get some other referendum in favor of a republic? Not exactly likely, but Juarez did think that Max was a good person, though that he had to be executed due to all the blood spilled in the war and to keep Europeans from trying to impose another monarch on them. Max took it in good grace.

You know, them reaching a compromise is probably one of the things I've most ever wanted to see happening in an AH scenario. But I know it's a tall order to get the PoD's required for that.
 
You know, them reaching a compromise is probably one of the things I've most ever wanted to see happening in an AH scenario. But I know it's a tall order to get the PoD's required for that.
We probably would need to find more info on the referendum that supposedly asked him to be emperor. They were trying to get him to Mexico for a few years but he wasn't initially interested. Whereas the man invited to be the King of Norway by the Storting replied that for him to accept he wanted a referendum saying the populace of Norway wanted a monarchy (while also requiring that he be allowed to not live opulently) which he got a got around 95% of the vote on. Or the monarchy did, though with everyone knowing he was the one the Storting was offering the job. He kept out of political affairs (outside of threatening the abdicate if the Cabinet wanted him to give in to German demands to put an unpopular traitor in the position of Prime Minister) and even the Republicans were fine with him, as he made no fuss about them when they one a majority of sears, simply asking them if they wanted to form a government in the same way he did for all the other parties. Anyways, we need to see if it was only a small group who voted in the referdunk, if it was limited geographically, etc. then we need to find a way for him to offer some security of prosperity for Mexico, rather than coming in on the back of French soldiers and with possible future ties to the portion of the US responsible for the repeated invasion she of Mexico. Meaning the Southerners.
 
The whole business was absolutely weird.

If I have the story right, Maximilian was urged to shave off his luxuriant blond whiskers, which made him about as inconspicuous as a cow in church. He refused. Yet in spite of this he got through two checkpoints unchallenged before finally being seized.

Sounds like the Mexicans (or many of them) would have liked to turn a blind eye and let him escape, but he (perhaps mindful of the humiliation awaiting him in Europe) simply wouldn't let them. A kind of "suicide by cop".
 
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