Napoleon dies prior to 1798

There is no Empire. What happens with the Republic? Will it seek peace, or the spreading of the republican revolution through war? Can it coexist with it's neighbors for any extended period of time? Borders?
 
When prior to 1798 do you want him dead? This is extremely relevant considering that Napoleon's skills were instrumental in giving France a victory in their 1796 Italian campaign. Without that, there's no telling how long it would take to bring Austria to the peace table, if it happened at all.

That said, I'm pretty sure that France would win the War of the Second Coalition even without Nappy, since the decisive blows in that conflict came in Switzerland and the Netherlands and didn't require his help. After that was Napoleon's coup so it gets really fuzzy.

As far as foreign policy, I don't think France would be able to avoid repeated wars with its neighbors; as I understand it, the creation of the Batavian Republic in Amsterdam was pretty much guaranteed after the Dutch lost the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, so there's no chance to butterfly that. As such, the menace of Republicanism will be seen as too urgent for the major European powers to ignore, especially Britain. Borders would look like OTL post-Second Coalition borders after the Second Coalition fails, but again, it gets iffy after the date of the OTL Napoleonic power grab.

All I've got, really, since I don't know who'd be liable to take charge in the absence of Napoleon.
 
There's still a coup on 18 Brumaire. Bonaparte wasn't supposed to be part of it in the first place, there was another general who was but died in battle during the preparation. Sieyes had to take Bonaparte because he was famous and just came back from Egypt, but I think he can pick someone else instead, anyone from popular enough in the army could do the trick.

So there's still a Consulat even if Bonaparte isn't there. After that I don't know what would happen.
 
Remicas said:
There's still a coup on 18 Brumaire. Bonaparte wasn't supposed to be part of it in the first place, there was another general who was but died in battle during the preparation. Sieyes had to take Bonaparte because he was famous and just came back from Egypt, but I think he can pick someone else instead, anyone from popular enough in the army could do the trick.

So there's still a Consulat even if Bonaparte isn't there. After that I don't know what would happen.
Is the coup avoidable? Or defeatable? AIUI, the wars were about over as France was near exhaustion. So it seems possible to stop before the Consulate is installed.
 
The foreign politics was'nt much a concern for the coup. The Directoire was a failed régime that only sustainded itself via repeting coups.

Avoidable perhaps. Defeatable perhaps too. After all, Lucien Bonaparte, one of Napoléon's brothers, was head of the Conseil des 500, so I think it helps (I don't remeber if he was part of the conspiracy or not). And without Napoleon (and his troops) intervention the coup would have failed.
 
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