Napoleon captured in Russia 1812

Napoleon Bonaparte somehow had been captured and taken prisinor during the chaotic retreat from Moscow by Cossacks and brought to St. Petersburg to have a word with Tsar Alexander III. once more.
 
Napoleon Bonaparte somehow had been captured and taken prisinor during the chaotic retreat from Moscow by Cossacks and brought to St. Petersburg to have a word with Tsar Alexander III. once more.

Probably something akin to the Frankfurt proposals

(quoted from wiki)

The proposal was that Napoleon would remain as Emperor of France, but France would be reduced to its "natural frontiers." The natural frontiers in this case were the Pyrenees mountains, the Alps mountains, and the Rhine River. France would retain control of Belgium, Savoy and the Rhineland (the west bank of the Rhine River), while giving up control of all the rest, including all of Spain, Poland and the Netherlands, and most of Italy and Germany.

Knowing Napoleon he would either refuse or accept and come back for a much larger "Hundred Days" after a couple of years.
 
Probably something akin to the Frankfurt proposals

(quoted from wiki)



Knowing Napoleon he would either refuse or accept and come back for a much larger "Hundred Days" after a couple of years.[/QUOTE

Maybe the the French didn´t want Napoleon back under these circumstances Empereor Franz maybe would order his daughter along Napoleon II back to Austria and divorces the couple. I could see a provinsional government under Fouche with Talleyrand pulling strings in thebackground.
 
Probably something akin to the Frankfurt proposals

(quoted from wiki)



Knowing Napoleon he would either refuse or accept and come back for a much larger "Hundred Days" after a couple of years.[/QUOTE

Maybe the the French didn´t want Napoleon back under these circumstances Empereor Franz maybe would order his daughter along Napoleon II back to Austria and divorces the couple. I could see a provinsional government under Fouche with Talleyrand pulling strings in thebackground.

Possibly - you can look to the aftermath of Napoleon III's defeat to see what could happen.

Then again even after 1870 there were still Bonapartistes in the French Assembly
 
Do you believe that a lasting peace could be reached on the basis of the acceptance of the Frankfurt proposals (be they made after Napoleon's capture or in OTL)?
 
Do you believe that a lasting peace could be reached on the basis of the acceptance of the Frankfurt proposals (be they made after Napoleon's capture or in OTL)?

In the long term the OTL Holy Alliance Monarchies might want to bring back the Bourbons back on the throne, which they see as legitimate sovereigns on the throne.
 
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