WI: France Remains a Fédération?

Wolfpaw

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For a brief period from 1790-1791, France was a constitutional monarchy, with Louis XVI having sworn an oath to uphold the France's new (if yet unrealized) Constitution. Roughly a year later, the King attempted the infamous and ill-fated Flight to Varennes, which pretty much sunk what support the Bourbons still enjoyed.

So, what if France had remained a constitutional republic? Obviously no Napoleonic Wars, but what else might have happened?
 
For a brief period from 1790-1791, France was a constitutional monarchy, with Louis XVI having sworn an oath to uphold the France's new (if yet unrealized) Constitution. Roughly a year later, the King attempted the infamous and ill-fated Flight to Varennes, which pretty much sunk what support the Bourbons still enjoyed.

So, what if France had remained a constitutional republic? Obviously no Napoleonic Wars, but what else might have happened?

Don't really know what you want. France was a constitutional republic from 1792 to 1804 at least in name. If you mean France stay a constitutional Monarchy, then you need to avoid the flight of Varennes or his numerous vetoes of the laws voted by the parliament. Or you can try to have another king to be crowned by the parliament (maybe Phillipe Egalité), but IIRC he wasn't very interested, he just wanted to preserve the economical interest of the nobility.
 
Don't really know what you want. France was a constitutional republic from 1792 to 1804 at least in name. If you mean France stay a constitutional Monarchy, then you need to avoid the flight of Varennes or his numerous vetoes of the laws voted by the parliament. Or you can try to have another king to be crowned by the parliament (maybe Phillipe Egalité), but IIRC he wasn't very interested, he just wanted to preserve the economical interest of the nobility.

I think he means to have this France survive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_France_(1791-1792)
 
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