WI: Revolutionary France is not in crisis?

Can Revolutionary France avoid the Reign of Terror? And, would that prevent a war between the 1st French Republic and Britain? Or even an alliance? Would other countries ally with the French like the USA?
 
What you seem to be suggesting is a more moderate French Revolution, probably leading to a constitutional monarchy.

The US will not ally with Revolutionary France while Washington or Adams are in office. Possibly Jefferson as well, though he was a Francophile. They were too committed to being neutral and such. They knew the US could not afford to be dragged into a European conflict so soon after independence.

It would be very hard to get an alliance with Britain, as well. They have a rivalry dating to the Hundred Years' War. That kind of thing doesn't evaporate overnight. It's certainly possible to keep them out of a war for a while, but if the French look like they're winning, the British will intervene. The British are dedicated to keeping one country from being dominant in Europe, and they will fight whoever threatens to achieve that.
 
It would be very hard to get an alliance with Britain, as well. They have a rivalry dating to the Hundred Years' War. That kind of thing doesn't evaporate overnight. It's certainly possible to keep them out of a war for a while, but if the French look like they're winning, the British will intervene. The British are dedicated to keeping one country from being dominant in Europe, and they will fight whoever threatens to achieve that.

The British and French were allies earlier in the century. It wasn't unheard of in that era, despite allegedly being "Natural enemies" and all.
 
The British and French were allies earlier in the century. It wasn't unheard of in that era, despite allegedly being "Natural enemies" and all.

Britain allies with the weaker side in a conflict. That's the way they rolled post Hundred Years War.
 
Well, I meant that the monarch gets arrested (not executed), France becomes an republic, and they try to get allies against Austria. (Britain and the Dutch Republic.) So, a revolutionary republic that isn't as radical as in OTL(Like not to the point of throwing a reign of terror and declaring war on some of the countries that are actually democratic for the time). That also means no declaration of war from France to Britain and the Dutch.

Britain actually welcomed the death of the Bourbons that were the worst enemies of the British. Of course, the Reign of Terror came in the June of the same year, and by that time the French declared war on Britain and the Dutch.

So, what would happen if a less radical Republic appears out of the revolution and tries to ally with the Dutch and British?
 
I had never heard of Britain, or at the very least the mainstream political opinion of that time welcoming the regicide of their fellow king (never mind what they had done to their own king a century prior). I'm not sure how fast news traveled between the two capitals in 1793 but I want to say that Louis Capet's execution was what caused London to sever relations with the revolutionary government.

In any event things in France were very rapidly spiraling out of control in late 1792, and I'm not sure Great Britain and the Dutch would ally with France even if the latter was somehow a less radical republic (whatever that means). The Dutch might out of compulsion...the event of which would probably draw Britain into the anti-French orbit whereas if the "less-radical" republic left its Belgian borders well-enough alone London might be content to observe continental affairs from its side of the Pas de Calais instead of in Flanders.
 
I'm not sure how you think France in the last third of the 17th century was less threatening than the Dutch.

Trotsky

In this case it was more Louis XIV was less of a threat to a monarchy seeking to restore absolutism than the Parliament in Britain.;) Louis offered subsides that the latter Stuarts hoped would make them independent of Parliament. Also give the trade tensions with the Dutch and recent wars Charles II probably thought he could maintain popular support for the alliance, which he was for a while.

Steve
 
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