France (Monarchist World)

The Kingdom of France is a

Developer Notes

 * Monachist World is a multiple POD timeline with it's earliest POD being a Royalist Victory during the English Civil War which began in 1641 (and in OTL ended in 1651). During this period, starting in 1648 France experienced it's own Civil War called 'Fronde' (which like the English Civl War is more then one conflict) between the Monarchy and an alliance of Parliament and the Princes of the Blood who believed the increasingly centralized government a threat to the influence of the landed nobility. The Parliament of France was actually 12 different courts. They where largely working for their own benefit so as to establish a true Aristocracy superceeding the power of the Monarch. The people of the French Revolution in OTL where not blind to this and all parliaments where supsended after the revolution and then abolished in 1789. Most simple reform was 'stonewalled' to use an American phrase by these Parliaments, and thus if the Kingdom of France is to survive these Parliaments must be disbanded sooner so as to enable a centralized royal government to take hold. The war the nobility waged against the King utlimately strengthend the Monarch's power but weakened the economy. 1770 was the first time these Parilament where abolished under the French Crown, only to be reinstated in 1774 after the King's death. I'll need to examine the impact of the Parliamentary Victory in England on France to fully get an idea of how to proceed. Perhaps watch some history channel production about the Fronde if any can be found in search of word on how (if at all) such outcome to the English Civl War (with the King being beheaded) had on the Fronde's outcome in 1653.