Challenge: France Regal and Triumphant

NapoleonXIV

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The POD is 1715 , the death of Louis XIV, the Sun King
The challenge is to make France the ONLY Superpower in the world in the present day, (although there may be other Great Powers). France may become a constitutional monarchy but must remain under the Bourbons. No revolution.
 

Grey Wolf

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NapoleonXIV said:
The POD is 1715 , the death of Louis XIV, the Sun King
The challenge is to make France the ONLY Superpower in the world in the present day, (although there may be other Great Powers). France may become a constitutional monarchy but must remain under the Bourbons. No revolution.

I would say you have to achieve this by looking to keep Prussia down, so that France can continue to develop on the North American continent, later avoid open warfare of great length with Britain, do not have an American Revolution, let alone support one, and see if by the early nineteenth century we have a Frace that has a greater dominion in North America than Britain, and has at least equal status in India.

As this ATL only requires France to be dominant EVENTUALLY we can take some things slowly. Russia is going to rise, it may even be advantageous to have Russia rise at the detriment of Prussia and Austria. It can have its fall later.

Grey Wolf
 
And it has to be AFTER 1715? Just a change of 5-10 years earlier could see France win the War of Spanish Succession and merge with Spain with Louis XIV the king of the new empire. That would, at least for the next century and probably longer, be the most powerful nation in the world. Combine French and Spanish possessions....
 
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