Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-4923787-20131012165847/@comment-32656-20131015132641

Louis Philippe was nowhere near the throne prior to the Revolution - he only got close(ish) because of it. And, for that matter, he still wasn't all that close. Only got it because he more or less stole it from the heir of Charles X.

Revolution doesn't go as bad as otl, there is no way he gets it. That he got it otl was unlikely enough.

When faced with a legitimate monarch on the throne, most would prefer to remain the power behind things. More or less what Napoleon would have done had a king been reigning at the time.

Would survive. There'd be no "victorious like otl."

Adopt small-scale, like otl. Remember, those reforms didn't get put in place in most of Europe for decades, at best, after that.

Everything after that, just no.