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Damn I forgot about the Orleans option. As you say French monarchists were probably too spoiled by choice to actually succeed in this period. Boulanger was the guy and that was later, as probably was when France was thought militarily more powerful as IIRC it was about the time he was...

I'm offering guestimates to a degree as I don't know the strength of the two sides at this period. Do recall reading that at one stage during the 1870s or 1880's some sources thought France had a more powerful army than Germany. They did however have some issues with internal stability with...

Guys A few questions. a) Would it be as simple for Germany as suggested against France, even without any 3rd party intervention? By 1875 how did the populations and economic strengths of the two empires compare? Germany was much stronger later and was industrialising rapidly but it could...