OOC: I hate to burst your bubble but you must've overlooked my post on accident.
IC:
There were a few truly likable French monarchs, yes, four to be exact. Two of them were murdered (Marianne I was poisoned in 1879 and Robert IV was shot by a German assassin in 1948), one died in office from cancer at the age of 42 (Louis XX in 1904), and the other one was forced to abdicate(Henri IX in 1981.). But other than that, I'm afraid France has been plain outta luck in that regard. Some have been okay, but intersparsed with many corrupt imbeciles and assholes.
1.)Mssr. L'Overture was friends with the French.....but with the Republicans, not the Monarchists. In fact, he and Napoleon worked together to free the Haitian slaves in 1807, while Charles X's Foreign Minister tried to sabotage the whole thing. Louisiana's slaves weren't all freed until 1818, when the Americans took over. The only reason any were freed at all was thanks to Etienne De Bore, who took over in 1812, and he was viewed as a traitor and as a pariah for many decades to come.
2.)Louisiana was badly mismanaged under Monarchist rule and the monarchist French were the ones who started the War of 1812, which the Americans entered despite the massive and angry protests from slaveholders across the country(John C. Calhoun, the former Congressman who tried to murder President Hamilton in 1814, was fiercely against the war for his fear of the 'browning' of America if Louisiana were to be annexed, as he himself said it).
3a.)There was universal suffrage in French territory.....but in Republican South France, in 1904. North France didn't have universal suffrage until after the Second World War. 3b.)Gay marriage is still illegal in monarchist France, btw, despite the support of the majority of the voting population there. South France has had gay marriage since 1947.
3c.) Child labor has been illegal in South France since 1897. North France did follow not long afterwards, but only after a riot trashed Paris's industrial district.
3d.)Free education in North France only came around in the late 1960s thanks to the brief rule of the Social Democrats; when the Conservatives threatened to eliminate it in 1976 rioters threatened to storm Versailles. It was only thanks to the pleading of Henri IX that it was kept around in a limited fashion.
Things are getting better up there but there's a long way to go.
