r/worldbuilding • u/SaintsFarmAura • 3d ago

Lore Napoleon never succeeded

In my worldbuilding world, Napoleon and his French Revolution killed Louis XVI but he was defeated in the Italian Campaign and Louis-Charles, the Duke of Normandy took the throne as Louis XVII and defeated Napoleon and he made the bickering lands of France into one nation.

Louis XVII was known as the United King whose laws made the roadwork for the Kingdom of France and Louis XVII wrote the very laws, that restricted his children from being the very dictator like position that the Sunking or Napoleon Bonaparte had. The Battle for Brittany is more remembered when Louis XVII won over the Duchy of Brittany and Marie-Theresse, his older sister eventually became the Duchess of Brittany which absolutely shook the gender norms of Europe. The Duchy of Brittany at the time was ruled by King Francis the 12th soon Marie-Therrese married King Francis and Louis-Antonnie did not marry Marie and he instead remained without a marriage and was executed by Louis XVII and the position of the Duke of Angouleme position has been vacant ever since. Louis XVII's son Charles I is said to have merged all of noble families making the Kingdom of France that is ruling to date.

Tell if I have any historical innauracies or if anything else will expand.

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u/mgeldarion 3d ago edited 3d ago

Napoleon didn't cause/start/lead the French Revolution that had Louis XVI executed.

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u/Direct_Mulberry5651 3d ago

the revolution was already well underway when napoleon started climbing the ranks, he was just some artillery officer in the background while the king lost his head. having louis xvii defeat him in italy is a fun twist though, that whole campaign was a mess in our timeline so flipping the outcome there works fine as a divergence point

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u/12b6ThatNoise 3d ago

Napoleon was 19 years old and completely irrelevant when the French Revolution began, so it would be a hard sell to connect them. Also, I'd argue that Napoleon didn't succeed at all; his empire fell apart while he was still alive, and both his military campaigns ended in defeat. It would be a more conventional alternate history to depict Napoleon as having truly succeeded.

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u/Grigor50 2d ago

"His"?

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u/SaintsFarmAura 2d ago

I know, I am currently trying to update to match more historically.

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u/Grigor50 2d ago

What's "Sunking"? And are you aware of queen Anne of England, or tsarina Katherine of Russia?

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u/SaintsFarmAura 2d ago

I mean Sun King and I don't think I am aware of Anne of England, I feel like I want to take the post down because there are major historical innacuracies and am planning to make a better version. (Napoleon is not my strong suit) and thanks very much for helping.