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I recall reading something about how in the immediate aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War, the royalists became a majority in the French National Assembly and actually planned on offering Henri, comte de Chambord, the French throne. The whole thing fell through, however, because Henri insisted on the restoration of the fleur de lys flag and refused to take the throne so long as the tricolore remained the flag of France.

So what if Henri decided to not make this frankly idiotic decision and go on to accept the French throne?
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