Peace with Britain

This scenario attempts to being about the opposite of Operation Sealion. Instead of trying to attack Britain the aim is to not to attack Britain at all or to use the least amount of force possible. The deployment of land forces on the British Isles is strictly to be avoided.

In this timeline, France manages to unify continental Europe through force in the mid 1800's. At that point is there any way for the new French Empire to stop Britain from attacking them? They have no interest in conquering Britain and even if Britain dislikes them France is willing to just leave them be so long as no attacks come from the Isles.

The situation could very roughly be seen as like Napoleonic France and the British Empire except that in this timeline Russia has lost a war to France. Russia still exists but is part of the Continental System. The POD is far enough back that Napoleon is not the one leading France so feel free to suggest any traits that could be helpful for the alternate French Emperor.
 
I think that it would require a sizeable incentive from Napoleon to the British to encourage them to forgo on their historically successful policy. Firstly as long as one is a Republic and one is a Monarchy there are significant ideological differences which may, to the people of Britain and France, undermine the stability of a long term relationships. If Napoleon comes to power and offers the French Colonial Empire on silver platter to Britain, praising the British colonial policy or some other reason to think that an alliance can be found in two ancient enemies.

Even then what's to stop the Brits from taking if then just reneging on their alliance.

The alternative is just for France to build and seize a strong enough navy that Britain has no conceivable hope of assaulting Europe, however this would involve bankrupting Britain and so any idea of both a British Empire and Napoleonic France wouldn't last.
 
@RMcD94 what if we change up the situation so that both France and England were always Monarchist? So long as France minimizes the deployment of its armed forces against the British negative effects on Britain are allowed. This would include methods of ending the British Empire such as bankrupting them.
 
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