> Be French> Proclaim 2nd French republic> Proclaim universal male suffrage making them possibly the most democratic nation on earth at the time> Elect Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte with a sweeping majority> The man with 'Napoleon Bonaparte' in his name surprisingly doesn't step down after his legal maximum of one four year term> Napoleons nephew, in a shocking twist of events, isn't the champion of democracy as expected and instead coups his own government, proclaiming the Second French empire> how could the republic have predicted this from Napoleon IIIEither the French are more retarded than I thought (which isn't really a grand stretch of the imagination) or, despite the amount of republican grandstanding and guillotine touting the frogs love to shove down your throat they are by nature, as 1000+ years of quite absolutist monarchy (when compared to their Holy roman and cross channel contemporaries) might suggest.
>>17429853>*has Haussmann rebuild Paris in your path*Sometimes you just need a little enlightened absolutist of a leader. The US would be better off for it if they had had more than just Wilson and FDR as theirs.
>>17429853French people just like rioting. It doesn't actually matter who is in charge, they just need to sperg out every once in a while.
>>17429853The French peasantry were fairly reactionary to the dismay of Parisians. The Second Empire had a much broader base of support than the other French regimes of the 19th century, from Cathtards to the moderate elements of the former republican left.
