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4	-> ''Save France, save the world.''
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6	Written by @/{{AnalyticalEngine}}, ''[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=161590 Vive la Francewank]]'' is one of a series of [[AlternateHistory alternate history]] timelines in the so-called "[[http://wiki.alternatehistory.com/doku.php/timelines/the_strangerverse Strangerverse]]", and hosted on Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom.
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8	The basic premise is that a [[TimeTravel time traveller]] [[AfterTheEnd from the future]] has gone back in time to 1617, and gives king Louis XIII a mission : [[TakeOverTheWorld Unite the world]] under UsefulNotes/{{France}} [[SaveThisPersonSaveTheWorld to save it]] by preventing an [[ApocalypseHow apocalyptic]] [[WorldWarIII war]] from happening in 2258.
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11	!!Historical characters who appear or are referenced in the timeline:
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13	* Blase Pascal
14	* [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfStuart Charles I of England and Scotland]]
15	* UsefulNotes/LouisXIII of France
16	* Marin Mersenne
17	* Pierre de Fermat
18	* René Descartes
19	* UsefulNotes/CardinalRichelieu
20	* And others...
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22	!!This AlternateHistory timelime provides examples of :
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24	%%* AChildShallLeadThem: Following the French victory in the Alt-War of the Spanish Succession, this is (mostly) the case in the Italian/Flemish domains.
25	%%* AlienSpaceBats
26	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation[[invoked]]: [[spoiler: King Louis XIII is cured of his madness before it even starts. Descartes discovers much of what Sir Isaac Newton did in OTL, but a generation earlier]]
27	%%* AlternateHistoryWank: ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin
28	%%* AntiVillain: Cardinal Richelieu. Yes, that one...
29	%%* AppliedPhlebotinum: The various gifts the Stranger grants to the king.
30	%%* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning
31	%%* BadassArmy: With an unfair tech advantage, the French Army is definitely one. Ironically, so is the ''[[DidntSeeThatComing English]]'' army...
32	* BalkanizeMe: [[spoiler:Russia]] has been partitioned up by its neighbours.
33	* BilingualBonus: Many things are referred to in French, with an appropriate footnote.
34	%%* ButtMonkey: Russia. [[spoiler:Poor, poor Russia]]...
35	%%* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Louis XIII being the main one.
36	%%* HypnoTrinket: The rings.
37	%%* KingBobTheNth: Well, it is Bourbon France after all. They weren't big on originality when it came to names...
38	%%* MotherRussiaMakesYouStrong: Subverted, massively.
39	%%* PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny: [[spoiler:Federation of People's Republics]] and the [[spoiler:Italian People's Republic]]
40	%%* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The French kings at least try to be this.
41	%%* RoyallyScrewedUp: With the alternate equivalent to Charles II of Spain, no less.
42	%%* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: The kings of France serve as heads of the Order of St. Denis.
43	%%* SecretCircleOfSecrets: Subverted. The Order of St. Denis are good guys, for a given value of good.
44	%%* ShownTheirWork: As evidenced by the copious footnotes, sometimes covering almost half of a given post's word count.
45	%%* SuccessionCrisis: Russia. More recently, the UsefulNotes/WarOfTheSpanishSuccession.
46	%%* TakeOverTheWorld: This is the basic premise of the timeline. Indeed, the eventual goal is for an ''[[OneWorldOrder Un ordre mondial]].''
47	%%* TimeTravel
48	%%* TheFederation: How the [[spoiler:Federation of People's Republics]] sees itself.
49	* TheRevolutionWillNotBeBureaucratized: Subverted. The revolution in the [[spoiler:Federation of People's Republics]] was ''started'' thanks to many of its supporters being entrenched in the existing bureaucracy
50	%%* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized
51	%%* TheWisePrince: Played with, since the king has a considerable benefit of hindsight.
52	%%* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: One of the core beliefs of the [[spoiler:Federation of People's Republics]].
53	%%* WellIntentionedExtremist: Charles I of England/Scotland.

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