VIVE L'EMPEREUR
The Rise of the Third French Empire
(A Kaiserreich National France AAR)
The Rise of the Third French Empire
(A Kaiserreich National France AAR)
Table of Contents
Prelude
Premise
Introduction
The Instability of '36
The Italian Crisis
Science, Industry and Politics
Interlude the First
The Liberian Campaign
The Civil Wars
The Death of the Republic (and Interlude the Second)
Preparing for the Restoration
The Imperial Restoration
The new Imperial Foreign Policy
Domestic Troubles
The Spanish Wars and Airplanes
The Tuareg Revolt
The Empire Strikes Back
Ending the Rebellion
The Fall of Darlan
The Empire and the Catholic League
The Second Weltkrieg: Sicily
The Second Weltkrieg: The Return to France
The Second Weltkrieg: The Death of the Commune
A New Age
The Libyan War
Interlude the Third
Preparing for war
The Invasion of Egypt
The Occitan Wall
The Fall of Egypt
The Cold War Deepens
Interlude the Fourth
The Campaign in the Levant
The Elections of '42
The Birth of the Arab Federation
The World in 1942
Interlude the Fifth
The Light Briga
The Savoy-Corsica Plebiscites
The League of Nations
The Collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
1944
Interlude the Sixth
The Rise of the Soviet Union and the Bombing of Britain
Portsmouth
Manchester
The Midwinter Offensives
In the Balance
Birth of the Ordinateur
The Fall of Britain
Occupied Britain - Part I
Occupied Britain - Part II
Occupied Britain - Part III
The Atomic Age
The Brief Peace - Part I
The Brief Peace - Part II
The Pressac "Massacre"
The First Day
The Vernichtung
The Failure of the De Gaulle Plan
Knife Edge
Comic Interlude
Crossing the Seine
The Second Battle of Paris
The Third Battle, and Liberation, of Paris
Advances in France
Verduns, Colons and the Rhine
Crossing the Rhine
Flanders and Potsdam
Interlude the Seventh
The Bombing of Paris
The July Offensives
August 1951
The German Empire on its knees
The Partition of Germany
The African Campaign
The Soviet Phase of the Third Weltkrieg
The War in the Pacific
Dirigisme
The Treaty of Bruxelles: Part I
The Treaty of Bruxelles: Part II
Post-Bruxelles Europe
Eurafrica
The Quebec Crisis: Part I
The Quebec Crisis: Part II
Armistice in Scandinavia
Prelude
Algiers, Capital of the French Fourth Republic (National France), 1936
A young officer in the uniform of the French Foreign Legion looked out across the Bay of Algiers. Scorning the boats in the harbour, he looked northwards, across the Mediterranean, towards his home, his motherland, France.
Fabien Lebeau had been a mere boy of seven when metropolitan France had fallen to the Communard revolution. His family had been one of the lucky few to escape the Communards and so Fabien had grown up with the other children of the Exiles, in Algeria.
Four years after coming to Algeria his father had died. A proud military man, Pierre Lebeau was broken at seeing his homeland, the land he had fought to defend and seen comrades die defending, overrun with the foul Germans and fouler Communard traitors. He had died of a broken heart and, on his death bed, had made twelve year old Fabien promise to return his bones to France once the Communards had been defeated.
That was a promise which had haunted Fabien and all his life. As soon as he had turned sixteen Fabien had joined the Armée de Terre. Being French rather than a native, he had become an officer and now, at the age of 21, he was a Capitaine of the Foreign Legion, commanding a company of eighty legionnaires, all of them loyal to Fabien, to the Legion and to France.
Looking out over the see, Fabien repeated his old promise under his breath, "Je vous vengerai, mon père, I will avenge you my father," he whispered. "Nous allons libérer la France et votre âme repose en paix. We will liberate France and your soul will rest in peace. Je le jure. I promise it."
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