louis xvi - alternatehistory.com
Aug 5, 2021 · The Affair of the Diamond Necklace was a significant scandal during the reign of Louis XVI of France, where a con woman's attempt to bilk as much money as possible out of a gullible Cardinal combined with some jewelers' increasing desperation to sell a white elephant of a project resulted in a...
AHC: Louis XVI As One Of France's Greatest Kings
Jan 19, 2021 · This is exactly correct. Louis XVI's path to be seen as a great hero of French history is not through launching a string of conquests or maintaining his absolute power. It's through being France's George Washington, the man who could've had great power but didn't take it and put his country on...
PC & WI Louis XVI Spared (2024 ed) | alternatehistory.com
Dec 13, 2024 · Most of the nobility agreed too that the system was unfair and inefficient and needed reforms. France was probably the most liberal kingdom in continental Europe. Serfdom, torture was abolished before the revolution by Louis XVI himself. The 14th of July celebration is not for just the taking of the Bastille but also the “Féte de la ...
AHC: Louis XVI As One Of France's Greatest Kings
Jan 19, 2021 · You may need to remove the OTL Louis XVI from the picture and give France a completely different person as King, who also would take the name Louis. As it happens, the brother of Louis XVI became Louis XVIII and turned out to be a good though not a great king, but maybe with the right circumstances and ministers, a Louis XVIII coming to the ...
WI Louis XVI successfully escaped France?? - alternate history
Nov 6, 2007 · Louis XVI's brothers were as legitimate in the eyes of the royalists and the anti-French coalition as a surviving Louis XVI and dauphin wold have been, while Napoleon and France didn't care a jot (except using them as scarecrows).
A competent King Louis XVI - alternatehistory.com
Dec 18, 2012 · A competent Louis XVI would necessarily mean a different man other than the OTL Louis Auguste de France. Here is a what-if: Let's suppose that Louis , the Dauphin of France, had (besides not dying young from consumption) obeyed orders and remained at his post instead of rushing to his father upon him contracting a fever at Metz during the War ...
Louis XVII, The Wild King (Marquis Saves the Dauphin)
Jan 10, 2021 · Louis Charles Sat at Versailles, Feeling very pleased with himself. He had, in his 3 years in Power, Restored Royal Power, Industrialized France, established New colonies such as New France, New Paris, and Brazilian France. He had also expanded his Family with Maria, with Maria Antoinette in 1802 and Louis-Phillip in 1803.
WI: Louis XVI Stanislas, king of France (1774-1824)
Jul 28, 2021 · PoD is very simple. Dauphine Louis-Auguste choked by a peach and died in 1768. His younger brother Louis Stanislas Xavier, known IOTL as king of France Louis XVIII, became dauphine. He had stronger character than ins elder brother. We don't have big changes before 1774. Marie Antoinette of...
No French Revolution; Effects on European Colonialism
Jan 1, 2022 · Backed by Louis XVI France and Dutch Republic, causing naval conflict between France, Dutch Republic and Great Brittain. 1785/86-1787 Dutch Patriotic revolt and take over in order to stop the nepotist Oliargy and Stadholder regime. Ended with Prussian invasion and restoration of the Stadholder from the House of Orange -Nassau.
WI Louis XVI + Marie Antoinette escape France
Jan 3, 2017 · France declared was on most of Europe during the "constitutional monarchy" phase of the Revolution. Louis XVI signed off on it. The flight doesn't change this. IOTL, the remaining European monarchies were remarkably lackadaisical in fighting the 1790s wars even with the execution of the King and Queen of France.