What? Clemenceau and the radical republicans were some of the staunchest revanchists.with revanchism, an ideology connected to monarchism
What? Clemenceau and the radical republicans were some of the staunchest revanchists.with revanchism, an ideology connected to monarchism
What? Clemenceau and the radical republicans were some of the staunchest revanchists.
I cut that off because it was irrelevant to the point I am interested in. That being that you assert revanchism is sufficiently linked to monarchism that it's failure would discredit monarchism. Given that it's most powerful supporters were republicans, and the fact that its victory in OTL didn't bolster the monarchist movement, I rather doubt that.I said “among other ideologies” immediately after your cutoff of my post.
I cut that off because it was irrelevant to the point I am interested in. That being that you assert revanchism is sufficiently linked to monarchism that it's failure would discredit monarchism. Given that it's most powerful supporters were republicans, and the fact that its victory in OTL didn't bolster the monarchist movement, I rather doubt that.
That's entirely besides the point I raised, but otherwise I see no reason to disagree.Monarchists weren’t bolstered by WWI IOTL because it was Clemenceau who was in power and seemed to succeed in concluding the war, not the monarchists, and another factor was that monarchism was deader than dead by 1919, though it saw a bit of a resurgence during the Vichy era. Clemenceau, the finest statesman of the Third Republic, himself came from the Vendee, the former hotbed of French monarchism. Truth be told, a defeat in WWI may not weaken monarchism because it was already a dead ideology.
Small nitpick: The socialists were actually divided on the matter, so much so that the pacifist wing eventually broke off to found the French Communist Party.If there’s anyone who would be strengthened by a defeat in WWI, it would be the socialists vindicated by a war they opposed from the very beginning ending in French defeat.