What if Marie Antoinette is not executed?

What if Republican France had taken Marie Antoinette, put her in a carriage, put a kitten in her lap and sent her back to Austria?

1. Would Austria have been grateful enough to accept a compromise in Italy?
2. Would Austria refuse to join a coalition against France and offer Republican France official recognition?
3. Would Prussia follow Austrian lead and refuse to join an anti-French coalition?
4. Would Austria/Prussia thwart any British/Russian coalition by refusing to allow Russian troops to transit its territories?
5. Would an ineffective British/Russian coalition NOT lead to the "Reign of Terror?"
6. Would Napoleon have remained an unknown artillery officer?

Or, is all this too much to expect from one a gracious act?
 
What if Republican France had taken Marie Antoinette, put her in a carriage, put a kitten in her lap and sent her back to Austria?

1. Would Austria have been grateful enough to accept a compromise in Italy?
2. Would Austria refuse to join a coalition against France and offer Republican France official recognition?
3. Would Prussia follow Austrian lead and refuse to join an anti-French coalition?
4. Would Austria/Prussia thwart any British/Russian coalition by refusing to allow Russian troops to transit its territories?
5. Would an ineffective British/Russian coalition NOT lead to the "Reign of Terror?"
6. Would Napoleon have remained an unknown artillery officer?

Or, is all this too much to expect from one a gracious act?

1,2 &3. War of the first coalition in effect was started by France before Marie Antoinette & Louis XIV were executed agx the declaration of Pilnitz. Arguements could be made that the declaration of Pilnitz (primarily Austria & Prussia)o paper but that the French declaring war made the coalition a reality.
4. Russia wasn't involved at this point and the Brits weren't interested so long as the French didn't go fighting others/claiming Belgium
5. Reign of Terror seems to intially have begun as a means of eliminating political rivals for whomever was in power at the time (overly simplistic but gets to the heart of things)
6. Eh who knows,

Basically Marie Antoinette (as much as I kind of feel for her) wasn't that much of a factor. Her death & the death of her husband may have personally affected certain monarchs etc but it's probably more so the killing of a reigning king/sovereign and the intent/persistence of the French republic to spread it's means of governance and influence through Europe via war much like the previous forms of France had done that drove the coalitions.
 

Marc

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She has a quiet, deeply intimate relationship with one of her ladies in waiting, and becomes what she should have been, a footnote in history.
 
It honestly depends on whether her son dies. If he doesn't, and somehow ends up as king,then Marie Antoinette will likely make a comeback.
 
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