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You raise the point that Charles X was deposed soon after the intervention, which definitely seems like a major what-if of history. But I also wonder if the intervention would have been more temporary if Charles had survived longer - under the last century of the ancien régime, French and other European naval forces had briefly taken over bits of North Africa to cow piracy and so on, only to abandon them a few years later. I wonder, was it precisely because of the July Monarchy's more democratic support base and the popular support you allude to which made French Algeria a permanent colonial project rather than a mere transient foothold like its predecessors?
I think there was also at least some worry in the July Monarchy that the troops sent to Algeria had been the ones most loyal to Charles and thus bringing them back would be asking for trouble.You raise the point that Charles X was deposed soon after the intervention, which definitely seems like a major what-if of history. But I also wonder if the intervention would have been more temporary if Charles had survived longer - under the last century of the ancien régime, French and other European naval forces had briefly taken over bits of North Africa to cow piracy and so on, only to abandon them a few years later. I wonder, was it precisely because of the July Monarchy's more democratic support base and the popular support you allude to which made French Algeria a permanent colonial project rather than a mere transient foothold like its predecessors?