There was a discussion on this on the other site, and there wasn’t really much fruitful discussion, so I’m hoping that there would be a bit more here.
So, how would people here think it would look like? Someone once said that a likely course is that the Thermidorians would have been smeared like Robespierre actually was, and the violence would have been toned down as that was the trend that was emerging at the time. Eventually a sort of leftist-Consulate would have emerged with the close allies of Robespierre as its leading figures, such as Hanriot, Saint-Just, Augustin, his younger brother, and Napoleon, who would have been a favorite general due to Augustin’s friendship with him.
The most likely power struggle would have been on who is Robespierre’s heir, and that would likely happen not too long in the future as he always had a fragile health. So around the late 1790s or so.
Going a bit away from that, another interesting thing that’s possibly going to happen is a continued relationship with the Ottomans as Robespierre stressed the natural alliance between France and Turkey. He would have lobbied hard for them to recognize the republic as France’s legitimate government and would avoid the Egyptian expedition which sunk relations between the two countries.
He also would most likely emphasize France’s current borders as he never much believed in territorial expansion, but, in a book on his foreign policy, he most likely would have asked for Belgium in a possible peace deal.
So, how would people here think it would look like? Someone once said that a likely course is that the Thermidorians would have been smeared like Robespierre actually was, and the violence would have been toned down as that was the trend that was emerging at the time. Eventually a sort of leftist-Consulate would have emerged with the close allies of Robespierre as its leading figures, such as Hanriot, Saint-Just, Augustin, his younger brother, and Napoleon, who would have been a favorite general due to Augustin’s friendship with him.
The most likely power struggle would have been on who is Robespierre’s heir, and that would likely happen not too long in the future as he always had a fragile health. So around the late 1790s or so.
Going a bit away from that, another interesting thing that’s possibly going to happen is a continued relationship with the Ottomans as Robespierre stressed the natural alliance between France and Turkey. He would have lobbied hard for them to recognize the republic as France’s legitimate government and would avoid the Egyptian expedition which sunk relations between the two countries.
He also would most likely emphasize France’s current borders as he never much believed in territorial expansion, but, in a book on his foreign policy, he most likely would have asked for Belgium in a possible peace deal.