Interesting. What would it need for the allies to reinstall the bourbons during this period? A complete victory during the first id second coalitions?Napoleon was not ever as exposed as he was in his first Italian and his last campaign in Germany.
No smashing French victory, but the allies are not flipping the tables either.
Interesting. What would it need for the allies to reinstall the bourbons during this period? A complete victory during the first id second coalitions?
Alright interesting, though when he was restored he did make changes not really his fault if the people kept the fundamental old systemThe sky to open, strike down Napoléon with a blast of lightning and leave a one hundred meter tall stone-engraven message saying 'the count of Provence should be king of France'? That wasn't what they were fighting for and Louis hadn't even taken on board the notion that changes would have to be made.
Interesting. Suggesting then that the French empire rested on nappy and him alone
Exactly. Remember the Conspiration of Malet? In october 1812, Malet spread the news that Napoléon died in Russia and he nearly took power.
Alright interesting, though when he was restored he did make changes not really his fault if the people kept the fundamental old system
It was only around 1804, 15 years in, after Napoléon had started whacking potential royalist heirs, that Louis realized there would have to be concessions made to the French people. That level of self-delusion after having tramped all around Europe courts takes something. Even in 1814, that lesson still hadn't penetrated the Bourbons' thick skulls and it took the Hundred Days and being hounded out of France again in less than a fortnight, by someone who had managed to rally virtually the entire army after landing with fewer than two hundred men for Louis to realize he had virtually zero legitimacy and that the ultras did not a powerbase make. And the lesson was still lost on Charles.
Yeah, and that really did not go anywhere.Exactly. Remember the Conspiration of Malet? In october 1812, Malet spread the news that Napoléon died in Russia and he nearly took power.
Yeah, and that really did not go anywhere.
What would it take for a complete annihilation?
And if they wereIt's hardly possible, since the coalition wasn't going for anything nearly that ambitious.
And if they were
And hownwouldThey weren't. They were operating by eighteenth century IR norms of balance of power. They were trying to clip France's wings and they didn't see its ruler as that destabilizing to the point they needed to remove him from the throne. It wasn't until the Sixth Coalition that it started to be an aim shared by more than the British (maybe) and in the Hundred Days they specifically said their war was with Napoléon, not France. Before that, it just wasn't an objective and there was no reason for it to become one.
And hownwould
One make it so that became the case?
By having ten years of Napoléon beating them around and disposing of their kingdoms willy-nilly already happen. It's not possible.