Short Revolution

I've thought about this some time and I want to know what if french revolution ended quickly without the rest of Europe intervening aginst France. This would in many ways change the 19th century and I want to hear any ideas in how? Could Napoleon get to power even if there weren't chaos and without a Vienna Congress would Europe form to as it is today?
 
I suppose the revolution could avoid involving any of the outside powers. But to do that you are probably going to get a revolution nothing like the one we knew from OTL. The key is to keep the moderates, who ran the opening stages IOTL, in control. If they can force through some form of constitutional monarchy and keep the radicals out (and keep the king from running or otherwise mucking things up), then it is possible that you could keep the other powers out of France.

However, this will drastically change the pattern of European history. The most obvious effect is no revolutionary wars, and thus probably no Napoleon (he may rise to prominence, but never near the heights he reached IOTL). This will probably embolden less radical revolutionaries elsewhere, so we may see other revolutions crop up elsewhere, possibly leading to a repeat of the French revolution in some form (in Prussia, say). Otherwise, for the moment, borders and culture to some degree get temporarily frozen where they were before the French revolution (for instance, Austrian netherlands). And many ideas and people who rose to power in the wars of the subsequent decades will not come around. From a military standpoint, things like the levee en masse and the corps system will not be adopted, because they were developed or popularized during the wars of the revolution or the napoleonic years.
 

Valdemar II

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There's some conflict, which will happen instead if the French Revolution is killed in infanty. The Second War of Bavarian Succession, which one will likely result in a Austrian victory. No Polish II and III partipation (unless Austria use this as a bribe to get Russia and Prussia out of Bavarian crisis). With French weak after the failed revolution, Austria will likely use the situation to increase it influence in Italy and maybe even annex Liege. Sweden will keep Finland and Vorpommern and and Denmark Norway without a neutrality deal being broken. the smaller German states and clerical states will likely be partipated by the bigger states, a few clerical states may survive. Netherlands will likely be hit by revolution too, but Prussia will likely stop it and reinstate the old order.
 
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