In the early 1870s, as the Second Empire collapsed following its defeat in the Franco-Prussian War at the battle of Sedan, on 1 September 1870, the royalists became a majority in the National Assembly. The Orléanists agreed to support the comte de Chambord's claim to the throne, with the hope that at his death he would be succeeded by their own claimant, the nine-year-old Count of Paris, Philippe d'Orléans. Henri was then pretender for both legitimists and Orléanists and the restoration of Monarchy in France seemed to be a close possibility. However, Henri insisted that he would only accept the crown on condition that France abandon its tricolour flag and return to the use of the white fleur-de-lis flag. Even a compromise, whereby the fleur-de-lis would be the new king's personal standard, and the tricolour would remain the national flag, was rejected.
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Suppose that Henri,Comte de Chambord, hadn't insisted on the abandoning if the tricolour in favour of the fleur-de-lis and had just accepted that it as his personal standard and had become King of France in the 1870s. What kind of effects would a monarchist France have with him as Henri V? He didn't have any children and his successor would likely have been a Legitimist (if it was up to them). Perhaps a victory in another Carlist war?
Thoughts? Discuss.