What if the son of Louis XV becomes King of France?

I haven't read that much of D-398, but some of it didn't seem to fit with his personality. Louis, Dauphin was extremely religiously devout, so making New France religiously tolerant didn't seem to be his style.
 
I haven't read that much of D-398, but some of it didn't seem to fit with his personality. Louis, Dauphin was extremely religiously devout, so making New France religiously tolerant didn't seem to be his style.

I suspect the butterflies have done something about that, what with an especially virulent illness being the cause of Louis XV's early demise TTL.
 
What if Louis XV, angered by the dauphin for some reason, decides to exile his son to the colony of New France, and-... :D
 
I haven't read that much of D-398, but some of it didn't seem to fit with his personality. Louis, Dauphin was extremely religiously devout, so making New France religiously tolerant didn't seem to be his style.

He was also supportive of increasing the power of the Pope over the church rather than the tradition of the French king exerting control. Also, he was very young when he was convinced he'd caused the death of his father, who was at the height of popularity, so that had a fairly serious effect on him. Also, he was seeing New France as a good way to get rid of all those less catholic folks who were clogging up his kingdom.
 
He was also supportive of increasing the power of the Pope over the church rather than the tradition of the French king exerting control. Also, he was very young when he was convinced he'd caused the death of his father, who was at the height of popularity, so that had a fairly serious effect on him. Also, he was seeing New France as a good way to get rid of all those less catholic folks who were clogging up his kingdom.

Fair enough - I don't want to knock other timelines, particularly those I haven't read fully. From what I can gather, your timeline was aiming for a monarch determined to make a stronger France. That's fine, but it's a different question to what is the most plausible thing that would have happened had OTL Dauphin, with the same personality, come to power in the 1770s.
 
Fair enough - I don't want to knock other timelines, particularly those I haven't read fully. From what I can gather, your timeline was aiming for a monarch determined to make a stronger France. That's fine, but it's a different question to what is the most plausible thing that would have happened had OTL Dauphin, with the same personality, come to power in the 1770s.

Easy - prevent his contracting tuberculosis and there you go.
 
Well, by that point he would probably have been better than his son wound up being, due to being older and more independent, so the nobility would probably have continued to be taxed, which would help the French economy and help hold off the revolution, or at least make it less extreme.
 
Well, by that point he would probably have been better than his son wound up being, due to being older and more independent, so the nobility would probably have continued to be taxed, which would help the French economy and help hold off the revolution, or at least make it less extreme.

I'm not sure. He was very pro-Jesuit, and the Jesuits didn't exactly do great things for state development.

I wonder if he would have given the Parlements back their power. That was one of the most stupid things his son did.
 
He was also supportive of increasing the power of the Pope over the church rather than the tradition of the French king exerting control. Also, he was very young when he was convinced he'd caused the death of his father, who was at the height of popularity, so that had a fairly serious effect on him.


Beg pardon, but his father outlived him, so I don't think that last can be right.
 
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