On 19 Februray 1919, Georges Clemenceau, Prime Minister of France and the French delegate to the Paris Peace Conferance, was shot by an anarchist, Eugene Cottin, outside his home.
Of the seven bullets fired into Clemenceau's car, only one actually hit him, in his chest, missing vital organs. Clemenceau recovered quickly from his injury, returning to work a week later, and joking that the assassin's poor aim was an insult to France and her monumental war effort, and that Cottin's prison sentence should include intensive training at a shooting range.
Suppose Clemenceau had not been so lucky that Februray morning, and that Cottin's aim had proved better. What would the implications be for French domestic politics, the Peace Conference, and so on?