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So I've written out Basic Ideas for 2 Pre-1900 TLs and I'd like you to vote in which one you'd like best.
When Paris Sneezes…: During the initial stages of the Paris Commune Adolphe Thiers and the rest of the 3rd Republic Government are captured and imprisioned by the National Guard. Without an organized opposition sympithetic Communes rise up in other large cities and after a brief civil war a new republic is formed. A Nice (Compared to OTL) workers state is formed which promptly beats back a counter-revolutionary invasion by Germany (but doesn't regain any land) soon other Socialist States start popping up…
Vive Le Roi Américain: Pretty standard POD for a Monarchial America. Constitutional Convention feels the need for a King to unite the country and sets up a Constitutional Monarchy with a Prime Minister. America chooses someone who speaks English and is a European Noble. Lafayette. King Joesef I of America accepts the throne after being shocked by the request and travels to Anerica to be crowned. After putting down a revolt in stubbornly Republican Rhode Island Lafayette/Joesef sets about being King with Prime Minister Washington. When TTL French Revolution rolls around, Lafayette being in America and bit France leads to big butterflies…
So What do you Think?
Personally I'm kind of leaning for When Paris Sneezes… because Royal America is so Cliche.