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| Tango01 | 23 Nov 2017 9:19 p.m. PST |
…French Revolution? "The French Revolution of 1789-99 put a powder keg beneath old Europe and exploded it with the force of a thousand atomic bombs. Old certainties shattered. Conditions fell into place that would see ancient empires swept away. The way we look at the world was fundamentally changed. While it would take some big changes to put the revolution back in its box, it could still have had a completely different outcome. One in which Louis XVI doesn't go to the guillotine, but instead escapes France to inspire the monarchist forces from abroad. In June 1791, Louis XVI was on the cusp of fleeing. It had already been arranged for the king to be spirited away from Paris in a light carriage, smuggled across the Belgian border, and delivered into the hands of a royalist alliance. The only reason this didn't happen? Marie Antoinette insisted on going with him at the last minute. This meant using a slower carriage, which meant they missed an important rendezvous with loyal guards, which led to them being recognized and caught a mere 25 miles from the border. The rest, as they say, is history. Say they had escaped. It's not too hard to imagine an exiled king giving the royalist forces a rallying point. At the very least, it's easy to see Louis sowing discord from exile, putting the ultimate outcome of this turbulent time in doubt."
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| cosmicbank | 24 Nov 2017 5:08 a.m. PST |
Come to USA open a Bakery called "Let Them Eat Cake" Get massivly rich. In 2016 Louis XXI elected President of the USA |
| Tango01 | 24 Nov 2017 10:50 a.m. PST |
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Frederick  | 24 Nov 2017 12:01 p.m. PST |
I have to agree – good old Louis XVI was not quite the same stuff as the Sun King |
| Tango01 | 24 Nov 2017 10:50 p.m. PST |
Very… very far of him…. Amicalement
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| Musketier | 26 Nov 2017 11:36 a.m. PST |
There's a French-language graphic novel exploring this scenario, starting with a spectacular flight by hot-air balloon… link |
| Tango01 | 26 Nov 2017 3:41 p.m. PST |
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