WI: A Third Restoration

So after the Franco-Prussian War a third Restoration was practically assured. The Legitimists and Orleanists had agreed to a compromise, in which the Legitimist heir, Henri,Comte de Chambord, would assume the throne as Henri V and his heir would be Philippe Come de Paris. However the Restoration fell through because Henri wouldn't accept the revolutionary tricolor as the national Flag. So lets say Henri swallows his pride and accepts the flag, with the old Bourbon flag as his personal standard ( a deal offered and turned down OTL) and is restored in 1871. What would his reign look like like? What would France's domestic, Foreign, and Colonial policy be under the Third Restoration? In OTL Henri's wife was unable to produce a child, so would Henri divorce/annul her and remarry in an attempt to produce a new heir after the Restoration,thus annulling the deal with the House of Orleans? If not what would Philippe VII's reign look like?

Note: I posted this before and it got hijacked into an argument about whether the people wanted a Monarchy or not and whether a Restoration was possible. So for the sake of argument lets say the Monarchy is restored with little anger from the people. Most of the time the French outside Paris were apathetic to government changes anyway.
 
Henry would not have divorced because it was against his religious belief. The best way is to have Henry die sooner than he really did. So you have the Orleans on the throne and they are more inclined to a democratic monarchy.

But anyway, any king on the french throne is going to have troubled times because :
- France had just suffered a terrible military defeat,
- the republicans were regularly gaining ground in the elections and this was clearly linked to the urbanization process.
 
Yeah, Henri wasn't going to divorce his wife. There is really no way to get a restoration vis a vis the Chambord unless you have it happen earlier (say, some sort of restoration in 1848, although I can't see the Legitimists being a strong enough party to pull it off). He was still young then and IIRC even still unmarried, so progeny would be possible. But in 1871 he was an old man, him and his wife, although childless, got along well enough, so I don't see him ditching her for political reasons. He was too religious and it's not in his character.

If you want a restoration in 1870, Chambord simply needs to kick the bucket. He's not going to accept the Tricolor as the national flag, not even the deal offered with the Bourbon white flag as his standard. To him the Tricolor represents all the ideals of the revolution and that was repugnant to him. He was clearly in the mold of his grandfather and his aunt, Marie-Thérése (Marie Antoinette's daughter), who raised him and his sister when his mother was disgraced. He was an 18th century reactionary who couldn't swallow 19th century changes.

Simply have him die in 1870, and the fusion between the two royal parties will come about naturally and the Count of Paris will happily accept the crown and the tricolor. The Count of Paris, however, wasn't that great of a man either... I get the sense he didn't really want to be king, although his son was active as a claimant. There's also the issue of dealing with rising urbanization, and of course, the Republican Party. The Left is still going to be a powerful force. There's a reason Chambord is considered France's George Washington. His intransigence allowed the Republic to survive, and while it could be unstable at times, it was France's longest form of government since the revolution. There's a reason the French saying goes "The Republic is the government which divides us the least."
 
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