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This is gonna sound stupid, I feel.

But suppose that there is no Napoleon Bonaparte. That the many excellent officers and generals of France at this time remain loyal to the ideals of the Revolution (at least to start), and campaign and wage war on behalf of the Consul and Directorate... at least until such that as the bloodletting and paranoia which featured in the Terror rose again, and the great French generals of OTL instead abandoned ship, carving out kingdoms in Egypt, Germany, the Iberian and Italian peninsulas, Poland, etc... or accepting kingships from supplicant nobles or populations basically wherever the Napoleonic Wars reached OTL.

This requires PODs and POD stretching, I know. Even events like Bernadotte in Sweden are more than a little incredulous at first glance. So if you want to quibble over the details of how this couldn't happen or could happen, go ahead. But that said, I'm also pretty curious about which generals you'd land where, and how successful you think their kingdoms might me. ;)

Edit: Maybe a mod can move this to ASB if it's deemed more suitable.
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