A mod made with the mod 33, and a few modifications more: France had claims in French-speaking regions of Europe (Geneva, Wallonia, Luxemburg and also Catalonia, as Catalan is considered part of French languages) and Italy is the leader of the Axis, without Germany. Due to Mod 33's events, this mod will begin in 1936.
Chapter list:
First part - Years of peace (1933-1940)
Prologue - A small history of French monarchism (1871-1936)
Chapter I - Operation White July (1936)
The world in 1937
Chapter II - Building a new country (1936-1937)
Chapter III - Peaceful exigences (1937-1938)
Chapter IV - Operation Bouvines (1938-1939)
Chapter V - Final alliances (1939)
Chapter VI - Two wars, no more peace (1939-1940)
Chapter VII - This is the end (1940)
Second Part - World War II (1940-1942)
Chapter VIII - Battle for the Rhine (1940)
Chapter IX - Isolating England (1940-1941)
The Cherbourg proclamation (1941)
Chapter X - The fall of England (1941)
Chapter XI - The conclusion (1942)
Chapter XII - The treaty of Columbo and his consequences (1942)
The new world order (1942)
Third part - Operation Charlemagne (1943-1944)
Chapter XIII - Better dead than red (1942-1943)
Chapter XIV - Securing the borders (1943)
Chapter XV - Beating Napoleon (1943)
Chapter XVI - Crossing the Ural (1943)
Chapter XVII - The battle of Siberia (1943-1944)
Chapter XVIII - Day of defeat (1944)
A tripolar world
Fourth part - Power struggles (1945-1949)
Chapter XIX - Si vis bellum, para pacem (1945)
Chapter XX - Guerre-Eclair (1946)
Chapter XXI - Peace for our time (1946)
Chapter XXII - Death of a Field Marshal (1949)
Fifth part - Je me souviens (1950-...)
Chapter XXIII - And like Cortes in 1519... (1950)
Chapter XXIV - An unprecetended bomb (1950)
Chapter XXV - Liberators or conquerors? (1950-1951)
Chapter XXVI - Peace at last (1951)
Chapter XXVII - Peace for our century (1951)
Chapter XXVIII - Death of a monarchist (1951-1952)
Epilogue: The world from 1952 to 1999
PROLOGUE: A small history of French monarchism
The Third Republic was born in the pain: Paris was under Commune's control and Wilhelm, King of Prussia, was proclaimed German Emperor in the Galerie des Glaces, on the former Royal Palace of Versailles. In the chaos that followed the abdication of Napoleon III and the defeat in the Franco-Prussian war, the elections were hurrily: the monarchists gained the majority in the National Assembly, signed the peace with the newly created German Empire and destroyed the Commune of Paris. Adolphe Thiers, an old politician, was appointed President of the French Republic: the Republic was made to be a transitional regime, to prepare the Restauration of the claimant to the throne of France, Henri de Chambord, grand son of Charles X.
Henri d'Artois (1820-1883), count of Chambord, known by the French monarchists as Henry V from 1844 until his death.
Stupidity or true convictions? Henri de Chambord refused to be the French head of state because the white banner with fleur-de-lys, which was not even used during the Ancien Régime, was not restored. Soon, Thiers became too republican for the monarchist assembly, which replaced him by the Marshal de Mac-Mahon, a hero of the Second Empire wars: expecting the death of the stubborn legitimate heir, President Mac-Mahon accepted a Constitution for the Republic, which suppressed the presidential powers in aid of the parliamentary ones; with the republican victory at the 1875 elections and the paralysis of presidential powers, Mac-Mahon resigned and was replaced by a true republican, Jules Grévy: the Republic was saved and confirmed.
The white banner, used only between 1814 and 1830, demanded by the Count of Chambord but judged too extremist, even by the stern monarchists.
With the death of "Henri V" in 1883, the French monarchism was divided into two trends: the Legitimists, for the Bourbon dynasty in place in Spain, descendants of Louis XIV, but who had gave up their claims over the French throne; the Orleanists, for the Orléans family, descendant of Louis-Philippe, but judged unworthy because their other ancestor, Philippe Egalité, voted the death of Louis XVI. Moreover, French monarchism became more and more weak with the XXth century: the Great War, for instance, decimated the traditional monarchist electorate, the peasant youth.
The two monarchist candidates in 1936: "Alphonse Ier", former king Alfonso XIII of Spain, for the legitimists; "Jean III", count of Orléans, for the orléanists.
Monarchism became fastly an integral part of French far-right. Rallying the anti-parliamentarist program of the General Georges Boulanger in 1888, thinking he was also anti-republican; Boulanger refused to make a coup after his municipal victory in Paris and killed himself in exile in Belgium soon after. With the anticlerical laws of the Republic in the beggining of the XXth Century, the shocked Catholics also joined the monarchist parties, renewing the alliance of the Throne and the Altar, and the monarchist restauration became a nationalist, traditionalist value, along with antisemitism and revenge against Germany; a renewal orchestrated by Charles Maurras, who founded the Action Française (French Action) during the Dreyfus affair, a dark case of antisemitism against a Jewish captain, Alfred Dreyfus, suspected of spying.
Charles Maurras (1868-1951), French poet and writer, theorician of the Action Française
The Action Française was muddling up hate against Jews, Protestants and Freemasons, foreigners and socialists, but also nationalism and monarchism. In the political chaos that followed the Great War, Action Françoise was one of the greatest far right parties in France, along with the Croix-de-Feu (Cross of Fire) of colonel François de la Rocque, Solidarité Française (French Solidarity)of major Jean Renaud, the Francist movement of Marcel Bucard and the ultraviolent terrorist group la Cagoule (the Cowl) of Eugène Deloncle. The French far rightist movements were identified with the Fascist Italian regime, and the rising Nazi party in Germany...
Parade of Solidarité Française in 1934
But...
Even with the corrupted and unstable French Republic, with his waltz of his Presidents of Council...
Even with the economic crisis begun in 1929...
Even with the French rearmement, enabled in 1933 with the abandoning of the Maginot line...
Even with the assassination of Franklin Roosevelt and the American Civil War...
Even with the General Julius von Streicher's dictatorship, which put an end to the poisonous situation in Germany, followed by the rebirth of the German Republic by the Social-Democrats of Otto Wels...
Even with the Stavisky affair, a dark case of crooking...
Even with the repression of the February, 6 1934 crisis, with a giant manifestation of the nationalist leagues in front of the National Assembly...
Even with the victory of the French Popular Front in 1936...
NO ONE WAS EXPECTING SUCH A GREAT UPHEAVAL
1936. Otto Wels is the 4th President of the German Republic, with his chancellor, the conservative Konrad Adenauer. Adolf Hitler died during a coup tentative in Austria. But before the next year, the French Republic will turn fascist.
Chapter list:
First part - Years of peace (1933-1940)
Prologue - A small history of French monarchism (1871-1936)
Chapter I - Operation White July (1936)
The world in 1937
Chapter II - Building a new country (1936-1937)
Chapter III - Peaceful exigences (1937-1938)
Chapter IV - Operation Bouvines (1938-1939)
Chapter V - Final alliances (1939)
Chapter VI - Two wars, no more peace (1939-1940)
Chapter VII - This is the end (1940)
Second Part - World War II (1940-1942)
Chapter VIII - Battle for the Rhine (1940)
Chapter IX - Isolating England (1940-1941)
The Cherbourg proclamation (1941)
Chapter X - The fall of England (1941)
Chapter XI - The conclusion (1942)
Chapter XII - The treaty of Columbo and his consequences (1942)
The new world order (1942)
Third part - Operation Charlemagne (1943-1944)
Chapter XIII - Better dead than red (1942-1943)
Chapter XIV - Securing the borders (1943)
Chapter XV - Beating Napoleon (1943)
Chapter XVI - Crossing the Ural (1943)
Chapter XVII - The battle of Siberia (1943-1944)
Chapter XVIII - Day of defeat (1944)
A tripolar world
Fourth part - Power struggles (1945-1949)
Chapter XIX - Si vis bellum, para pacem (1945)
Chapter XX - Guerre-Eclair (1946)
Chapter XXI - Peace for our time (1946)
Chapter XXII - Death of a Field Marshal (1949)
Fifth part - Je me souviens (1950-...)
Chapter XXIII - And like Cortes in 1519... (1950)
Chapter XXIV - An unprecetended bomb (1950)
Chapter XXV - Liberators or conquerors? (1950-1951)
Chapter XXVI - Peace at last (1951)
Chapter XXVII - Peace for our century (1951)
Chapter XXVIII - Death of a monarchist (1951-1952)
Epilogue: The world from 1952 to 1999
PROLOGUE: A small history of French monarchism
The Third Republic was born in the pain: Paris was under Commune's control and Wilhelm, King of Prussia, was proclaimed German Emperor in the Galerie des Glaces, on the former Royal Palace of Versailles. In the chaos that followed the abdication of Napoleon III and the defeat in the Franco-Prussian war, the elections were hurrily: the monarchists gained the majority in the National Assembly, signed the peace with the newly created German Empire and destroyed the Commune of Paris. Adolphe Thiers, an old politician, was appointed President of the French Republic: the Republic was made to be a transitional regime, to prepare the Restauration of the claimant to the throne of France, Henri de Chambord, grand son of Charles X.
Henri d'Artois (1820-1883), count of Chambord, known by the French monarchists as Henry V from 1844 until his death.
Stupidity or true convictions? Henri de Chambord refused to be the French head of state because the white banner with fleur-de-lys, which was not even used during the Ancien Régime, was not restored. Soon, Thiers became too republican for the monarchist assembly, which replaced him by the Marshal de Mac-Mahon, a hero of the Second Empire wars: expecting the death of the stubborn legitimate heir, President Mac-Mahon accepted a Constitution for the Republic, which suppressed the presidential powers in aid of the parliamentary ones; with the republican victory at the 1875 elections and the paralysis of presidential powers, Mac-Mahon resigned and was replaced by a true republican, Jules Grévy: the Republic was saved and confirmed.
The white banner, used only between 1814 and 1830, demanded by the Count of Chambord but judged too extremist, even by the stern monarchists.
With the death of "Henri V" in 1883, the French monarchism was divided into two trends: the Legitimists, for the Bourbon dynasty in place in Spain, descendants of Louis XIV, but who had gave up their claims over the French throne; the Orleanists, for the Orléans family, descendant of Louis-Philippe, but judged unworthy because their other ancestor, Philippe Egalité, voted the death of Louis XVI. Moreover, French monarchism became more and more weak with the XXth century: the Great War, for instance, decimated the traditional monarchist electorate, the peasant youth.
The two monarchist candidates in 1936: "Alphonse Ier", former king Alfonso XIII of Spain, for the legitimists; "Jean III", count of Orléans, for the orléanists.
Monarchism became fastly an integral part of French far-right. Rallying the anti-parliamentarist program of the General Georges Boulanger in 1888, thinking he was also anti-republican; Boulanger refused to make a coup after his municipal victory in Paris and killed himself in exile in Belgium soon after. With the anticlerical laws of the Republic in the beggining of the XXth Century, the shocked Catholics also joined the monarchist parties, renewing the alliance of the Throne and the Altar, and the monarchist restauration became a nationalist, traditionalist value, along with antisemitism and revenge against Germany; a renewal orchestrated by Charles Maurras, who founded the Action Française (French Action) during the Dreyfus affair, a dark case of antisemitism against a Jewish captain, Alfred Dreyfus, suspected of spying.
Charles Maurras (1868-1951), French poet and writer, theorician of the Action Française
The Action Française was muddling up hate against Jews, Protestants and Freemasons, foreigners and socialists, but also nationalism and monarchism. In the political chaos that followed the Great War, Action Françoise was one of the greatest far right parties in France, along with the Croix-de-Feu (Cross of Fire) of colonel François de la Rocque, Solidarité Française (French Solidarity)of major Jean Renaud, the Francist movement of Marcel Bucard and the ultraviolent terrorist group la Cagoule (the Cowl) of Eugène Deloncle. The French far rightist movements were identified with the Fascist Italian regime, and the rising Nazi party in Germany...
Parade of Solidarité Française in 1934
But...
Even with the corrupted and unstable French Republic, with his waltz of his Presidents of Council...
Even with the economic crisis begun in 1929...
Even with the French rearmement, enabled in 1933 with the abandoning of the Maginot line...
Even with the assassination of Franklin Roosevelt and the American Civil War...
Even with the General Julius von Streicher's dictatorship, which put an end to the poisonous situation in Germany, followed by the rebirth of the German Republic by the Social-Democrats of Otto Wels...
Even with the Stavisky affair, a dark case of crooking...
Even with the repression of the February, 6 1934 crisis, with a giant manifestation of the nationalist leagues in front of the National Assembly...
Even with the victory of the French Popular Front in 1936...
NO ONE WAS EXPECTING SUCH A GREAT UPHEAVAL
1936. Otto Wels is the 4th President of the German Republic, with his chancellor, the conservative Konrad Adenauer. Adolf Hitler died during a coup tentative in Austria. But before the next year, the French Republic will turn fascist.
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