We all know that the French love their King Henry, and the Orleanist Party, which supports him is all and well.
But what if? A second Republic could be started, even a third, fourth or even fifth one.
So set a pretense to make that happen.
Also, bonus points if you get the British to keep their monarchy.
All is fine and well? Only if you listen to the rightist media over there, sadly.
Here in the Confederation of Canada(a republic and free of royal influence since 1839!), we have more honest sources. Sad truth is, North France is one of the poorest and most mismanaged countries in Europe. HenrI X is despised by virtually all the common folk and it's pretty well-known here that the monarchist elite have been rigging votes for over 5 decades now.
I should also mention that Monarchist France was a German satellite state in between the World Wars as well(Anti-Semitism was, sadly, all too common, though at least some of the German Governors-General had the decency to try to curb it), although only South French schools cover that fact.
And let's not get started on how the Monarchists have treated immigrants, either. That topic has already started flame wars. Ivan had to boot a number of people off on the most recent one particularly.
I've been to every single major country in Europe outside of Russia tbh. Finland, Poland, Great Britain, Scotland, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, and Scandia are all well-functioning democracies(Scotland has an Emperor but he's only a figurehead, and actually well-liked at that). Germany and Austria are okay but still pretty screwed up in spots(took a socialist revolution in the latter country to fix it though). Monarchist France? I left after only four days; the final straw came when I saw a King's Guard murder a Jewish couple in cold blood.
Make no mistake, monarchist France has been screwed up since the beginning. Why else are there over 25 million people of French descent in today's U.S.A., Canada(especially in Quebec), New England, California, and Mexico?
@LSCatilina: Didn't happen quite happen like that. Northern France did go back to the King, yes, but the south of the country remained Republican until 1824. After the 71-year hiatus, the Insurrection of 1895 happened, and South France has been Republican ever since.