PC: Philippe Egalité, King of France?

Is it possible for duke Louis-Philippe II of Orleáns, a notable french liberalist and constitutional monarchist in the period leading up to the french revolution, to become King of France with the approval of the Estates-General in an event like England's Glorious Revolution?
My guess is that a successful flight of Louis XVI to Varennes could make this situation close to possible...
 

CatalanKing

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Is it possible for duke Louis-Philippe II of Orleáns, a notable french liberalist and constitutional monarchist in the period leading up to the french revolution, to become King of France with the approval of the Estates-General in an event like England's Glorious Revolution?
My guess is that a successful flight of Louis XVI to Varennes could make this situation close to possible...

Easy. Just have Louis, Dauphin of France, and Louis XVI die from illness and Louis XV realize that his nation will need a really different monarch after him and declare Louis Phillipe II his heir. I think Frederick the great would applaud it but I don't know about the rest of the world.
 
Easy. Just have Louis, Dauphin of France, and Louis XVI die from illness and Louis XV realize that his nation will need a really different monarch after him and declare Louis Phillipe II his heir. I think Frederick the great would applaud it but I don't know about the rest of the world.

Can't do. The legitimacy in France is very strickly linked to the succession rules. Louis XV cannot alter his succession and remove Provence and Artois from the order of succession. Only if every male line descendent to Louis XV is gone does Orleans have a shot at the throne. And even in this situation, the Spanish Bourbons would contest.
 

CatalanKing

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Can't do. The legitimacy in France is very strickly linked to the succession rules. Louis XV cannot alter his succession and remove Provence and Artois from the order of succession. Only if every male line descendent to Louis XV is gone does Orleans have a shot at the throne. And even in this situation, the Spanish Bourbons would contest.

Provence and Artois could die with Louis, Dauphin of France Louis XVI via Smallpox, if I remember it being highly contagious. For the Spanish Bourbons, I don't think Charles III would want France and if he does, Louis Phillipe has Austrian and other nation's support in a war of French Succession. One must remember the treaty of Utrecht and how Europe banded together to stop Franco-Iberia from happening OTL.
 
Provence and Artois could die with Louis, Dauphin of France Louis XVI via Smallpox, if I remember it being highly contagious. For the Spanish Bourbons, I don't think Charles III would want France and if he does, Louis Phillipe has Austrian and other nation's support in a war of French Succession. One must remember the treaty of Utrecht and how Europe banded together to stop Franco-Iberia from happening OTL.

Franco-Spanish union is of course out of question, but a new round of musical thrones is possible : Charles III is going to Versailles, Ferdinand to Madrid and Gabriel to Naples. Given the lack of ambition of Louis Philippe of Orléans, a war of French Succession is not likely.

Is it possible for duke Louis-Philippe II of Orleáns, a notable french liberalist and constitutional monarchist in the period leading up to the french revolution, to become King of France with the approval of the Estates-General in an event like England's Glorious Revolution?
My guess is that a successful flight of Louis XVI to Varennes could make this situation close to possible...

As you suggest, a strict application of the 1790 Constitution allow for this. If Varennes is successful, the Assembly could declare that Louis XVI has abandonned France and therefore forfeited the throne. Same for the Dauphin, Provence, Artois, Angouleme and Berry. Next in line (Utrecht treaties accepted) is Orleans. Note he would reign as King of the French, not King of France, and would be facing a full blown war.
 
As you suggest, a strict application of the 1790 Constitution allow for this. If Varennes is successful, the Assembly could declare that Louis XVI has abandonned France and therefore forfeited the throne. Same for the Dauphin, Provence, Artois, Angouleme and Berry. Next in line (Utrecht treaties accepted) is Orleans. Note he would reign as King of the French, not King of France, and would be facing a full blown war.
I expect it'd be far less full blown than OTL -- even if the war with Austria and Prussia breaks out a few months earlier, the rest of Europe won't be exactly eager to jump in without the execution of the Bourbon king, who TTL has already hightailed it out of there.
 
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