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What if…
LOUIS XVI HAD LIVED?

Louis XVII becomes
increasingly dependant on
Napoleon for political advice

O The Franco-Russian struggle for power O Napoleon’s influence diminishes O The threat to France O Napoleon retires
Alexander I of Russia refuses to allow the With Louis XVII as timid as his With Napoleon unable to flex his Napoleon grudgingly agrees to retire after more
total decimation of the Austrian Empire father and fearing a repeat of the military muscles and hobbled by than two decades. History will judge him as a great
and counsels Louis to be cautious. With revolution, and without official Louis’s fear of upsetting the populace, commander-in-waiting who was prevented from
the young king deaf to his warnings, Russia regent powers, Napoleon is unable foreign powers threaten to form leading France to enormous territorial gains by a
leads the call for Napoleon’s dismissal. to establish the French Empire or an anti-French coalition unless the timid, ill-prepared king who had seen too much © Ian Hinley
1812 take any decisive action. 1814 powerful politician is removed. 1815 bloodshed to risk a second revolution. 1816
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