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-====== France ======
+====== France (Look to the West) ======
-In [[timelines:Look to the West]], France is one of the most powerful countries of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a rival of [[timelines:Kingdom of Great Britain#Britain]], [[timelines:Austria (Look to the West)#Austria]] and [[timelines:Russia (Look to the West)#Russia]].
+In [[timelines:Look to the West]], France is one of the most powerful countries of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a main rival of [[timelines:Kingdom of Great Britain#Britain]], [[timelines:Austria (Look to the West)#Austria]] and [[timelines:Russia (Look to the West)#Russia]].
-France's eighteenth century history is somewhat happier than OTL, as the French retained considerable conquests in India after the [[timelines:Second War of Supremacy]] and has built on this to provide a rich East India trade which has improved the French economy relative to OTL. France also retained Louisiana after the [[timelines:Third War of Supremacy]], unlike our Seven Years' War, but lost the hinterland in the following [[timelines:Second Platinean War]], leaving only Nouvelle-Orléans and its environs, an area only slightly larger than the modern OTL US state of Louisiana.
+France's eighteenth century history is somewhat happier than OTL, as the French retained considerable conquests in India after the [[timelines:Second War of Supremacy]] and has built on this to provide a rich East India trade which has improved the French economy relative to OTL. France also retained Louisiana after the [[timelines:Third War of Supremacy]], unlike our Seven Years' War, but lost the claimed hinterland in the following [[timelines:Second Platinean War]], leaving only Nouvelle-Orléans and its environs, an area only slightly larger than the modern OTL US state of Louisiana.
 Unlike OTL in which Louis XVI supported the United States against Britain in the American Revolutionary War, in TTL a longer-lived Louis XV supported Spain against the rebel [[timelines:United Provinces of South America]]. Although being on the losing side, France won several shock naval victories against Britain's Royal Navy and its economy was not as badly damaged as OTL.
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 The French Revolution still happened in TTL but it was delayed some years to 1794. The King at the time was King Louis XVI of France, not OTL's Louis XVI but his father, who in OTL died while he was still the Dauphin. The Revolution took on a bloodier character than OTL thanks to [[timelines:Linnaeanism]] and focused on ideas of racial supremacy as well as social levelling.
-Unlike OTL, the Dauphin (equivalent to OTL's Louis XVI, but TTL's Louis XVII) managed to escape and, with the assistance of [[timelines:Leo Bone]] created a credible Royal France in exile.
+Unlike OTL, the Dauphin (equivalent to OTL's Louis XVI, but TTL's Louis XVII) managed to escape and, with the assistance of [[timelines:Leo Bone]] created a credible Royal France (in exile) which include the north-western part of Ludwig XVI's Kingdom.
 ==== List of Monarchs of France since 1715 ====
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 -1795: **Louis XVI** (OTL's Dauphin Louis-Ferdinand)
--: **Louis XVII** (approximately OTL's Louis XVI; in exile)
+-1814: **Louis XVII** (approximately OTL's Louis XVI; in exile 1795-1809, thereafter recognised as King of all France)
+-1871: **Charles X**
+-????: **Louis XVIII**
+==== List of Prime Ministers of France since 1806 ====
+-1828: Napoleon "Leo Bone" Bonaparte (Parti modéré "Bleus") //(De facto 1806-1810, de jure 1810-1828)//
+-1829: Émile Perrier (Parti royaliste "Blancs") //(Sacked by Charles X, prompting constitutional crisis)//
+-1835: National War Government consisting of a triumvirate of Émile Perrier (Parti royaliste "Blancs"), André Malraux (Parti de la liberté "Rouges") and Claude Devigny (Parti modéré "Bleus") with a Dictateur, Napoleon "Leo Bone" Bonaparte (Independent) as supreme military commander.
+-1836: Claude Devigny (Parti modéré "Bleus")
+-1847: André Malraux (Parti de la liberté "Rouges")
+-1847: Raymond Dupuit (Parti de la liberté "Rouges")
+-1851: Georges Villon (Parti nationale "Verts")
+-1855: Raymond Dupuit (Parti diamantin "Rouges")
+-1859: Georges Villon (Parti nationale "Verts")
+-1866: François Resnais (Parti diamantin "Rouges")
+-1870: Alain Tourneur (Parti nationale "Verts")
+-1878: Louis Bouchez (Parti diamantin "Rouges")
+-????: As yet unnamed (Parti nationale "Verts")
+????-1895: As yet unnamed (Parti nationale "Verts")
+-????: Napoleon Leclerc (Parti nationale "Verts")
 ==== Flags ====
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+==== Royal (Vendean) France ====
+The Royalist regime under Louis XVI in the Vendée and Brittany introduced the simplified single fleur-de-lys banner below as the official flag, recognising the power of a rallying national symbol. Heraldically this is called 'France Ultramodern' (as opposed to many fleur-de-lys 'France Ancient' and three fleur-de-lys 'France Modern').
+{{timelines:french_kingdom.png|}}
+== Parliamentary flag / Naval ensign ==
+Inspired by the flag of Paris (like the OTL French tricolour) the flag of the French Grand-Parlement (The "Drapeau parlementaire") incorporates the colours of its three parties, with the King represented by a gold fleur-de-lys. This flag was also later used as a naval ensign.
+{{:timelines:french_ensign.png|}}
+== New national flag ==
+Influenced by the parliamentary flag, in 1827 a red border was added to the national flag so that the colours of all three political groups were represented. This was also considered by some to symbolise France healing the wounds of the Jacobin Wars and coming to terms with its Jacobin period.
+{{:timelines:french_kingdom_3.png|}}
 ===== Royal Chartered Companies =====
 ==== French East India Company ====
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 -1801: Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau
--: Julien de Champard (de facto)
+-1810: Julien de Champard (de facto)
+-: Thierry de Missirien
+===== Colonies =====
+==== French Louisiana ====
+In 1816 the longstanding colony of Louisiana was upgraded to a Grand Duchy, with responsibilities for all French New World colonies being devolved to the Grand Duke in Nouvelle-Orléans.
+Louisiana's colonial flag is a variation on the "Drapeau Parlementaire" used as France's naval ensign, with "GDL" added for Grand-Duché de Louisiane:
+{{:timelines:louisiana_1.png|}}
+==== Navigation ====
+**[[list of states and regions in look to the west|Main Index of Look to the West States and Regions]]**