Revolutionary Venetian Republic

What if the facts on the ground in Italy for Revolutionary France were such that Venice was puppeted, rather than sold out to Austria?
 
It most likely gets absorbed by Austria all the same at the Congress of Vienna, unless a very significant degree of butterfly effect is applied.

A French imposed Republic of Venice would be merged into the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy sooner than later, so not much would change from OTL.

A different matter is if the Serenissima Repubblica di Venezia is allowed to exist, acting maybe as some sort of buffer between France and Austria (possible imho if Napoleon has lesser success than OTL in the Italian campaign or Venice reforms sa bit in the years before, instead of adopting a self-defeating attitude of "unarmed neutrality"). This second scenario could be very interestng, as it changes the whole dinamics of the period: maybe a less successful Napoleon never becomes Consul/Emperor...
 
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