We saw a performance of the musical « Le Roi Soleil » (The Sun King) last weekend. It tells the life of Louis XIV, particularly the Fronde.
And so I wondered, «What if the Fronde had succeeded?»
It might not be the turning point in history that everyone thinks of, and yet, if the Fronde had succeeded:
➡️ No king by divine right
➡️ A much less centralized France
➡️ The beginning of parliamentarism?
➡️ No Versailles
➡️ No Le Nôtre, Molière, Lully, La Fontaine…
➡️ No Schönbrunn Palace or St. Petersburg
➡️ Far fewer wars
➡️ No Bourbons in Spain?
➡️ Alsace not French
➡️ No revocation of the Edict of Nantes, therefore a multi-faith France
➡️ A more industrious France
➡️ Probably no French Revolution, and therefore
➡️ No universal system of measurement
➡️ Nor Napoleon to spread it throughout Europe
➡️ No disappearance of the Holy Roman Empire
➡️ A completely different unification of the Germanic world
➡️ And in any case, not in the Hall of Mirrors
➡️ No loss of Alsace-Lorraine, and therefore no desire for revenge in 1914
@haiku_shelf Nice! It made me rethink of the movie Tous les matins du monde https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tous_les_Matins_du_Monde
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uORg1aeD_Og&list=PLa1rC97wRkZjVZxuHJhlLE02KqPZPgWLH
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