French Republic

-Sieyes’ state, with weird constitution
-Consul of Interior absorbs power gradually

Statistics

Name - République française (French)
Continent - Europe
Capital - Paris

Administration

Head of state - Grand Elector Stanislas du Leyen
Head of government - Consul of the Interior (and President of the Council of State) François Díaz
Legislature - Council of State & Tribunate (initiative), Legislative Body (decision)
President of the Tribunate - Marie-Odette Martin
First Tribune - Youri Fiodoroffe
President of the Legislative Body - Nicole Bodier
Conserving body - College of Conservators
President of the College of Conservators - Michel Horvath
Judiciary - Grand Council of Revision
President of the Grand Council of Revision - Laurent Schwartz
Form of government - Unitary republic under a democratic solonic consular constitution
Form of law - Cambacérès Code
Demonym - French

Geography

Area - 627,875 km^2
Largest cities
-Paris - 9,715,000 (city), 24,677,000 (metro)
-Aix-la-Chapelle [Aachen] - 2,113,000 (city), 9,412,000 (metro)
-Anvers [Antwerp] - 1,523,000 (city), 3,632,000 (metro)
Time zone
-TMP+00:00 (mainland)
-TMP-04:00 (Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Macapá Spatiodrome Concession)
Currency - French franc

Demography

Language - French
Religion - None (official); Roman Catholicism, Independent Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Lutheranism, Methodism, Calvinism, Judaism, Islam (recognized)
Population - 131,324,241
Density - 209.16/km^2

Symbols

National festivals
-Equality Day (January 21) - commemorating the execution of Louis XVI (1793)
-Constitution Day (May 3) - commemorating the Glorious Reform (1824)
-Bastille Day (July 14) - commemorating the Storming of the Bastille (1789)
-Reunion Day (August 10) - commemorating the Storming of the Tuileries (1792)
-Republic Day (September 22) - commemorating the Declaration of the Republic (1792)
Anthem - La Marseillaise
Motto - Liberté, égalité, fraternité

Government

File not found: Country folders/Europe/France/Government/Government

Flag

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# National Holidays

National Holidays >>

Name Date Notes

New Years' Day January 1

Equality Day January 21 Commemorates the execution of Louis XVI by the French people (1793)

Victory Day March 15 Commemorates the French victory in the French Wars > Fifth French War (1892-5))

Easter Monday Floating

Workers Day April 23 Commemorates the Aix-la-Chapelle > Cour de Katche riot (1877)

Constitution Day May 3 Commemorates the Glorious Reform (1824) of the French Constitution

Joan of Arc Day May 30 Commemorates the martyrdom (1431) of French national hero Joan of Arc

Bastille Day July 14 Commemorates the Storming of the Bastille (1789)

Reunion Day August 10 Commemorates the Storming of the Tuileries (1792)

Mother's Day August 15 Still often known as Assumption Day, as it was known prior to the Amendments to the Concordat (1857)

Republic Day September 22 Commemorates the Declaration of the French Republic (1792)

Veterans Day October 3 Commemorates the end of the French Wars > Fourth French War (1880-4))

All Saints' Day November 1

Christmas December 25

Second Day of Christmas December 26 Still often known as St. Stephen's Day, as it was known prior to the Amendments to the Concordat (1857)

Equality Day

-regarded as somewhat garish to celebrate an execution
-but nevertheless has a fair amount of significance beyond that
-celebrates equality of the nation in general

Workers Day

-the Cour de Katche riot was hallmark of labor movement and commemorated
-made official by Heads of France > 1898-1901 Alexandre Bourgeois (Social Radical - Association of Mechanics and Farmers coalition))

Constitution Day

-commemorates the amendment to the French constitution bringing France farther along the road to democracy
-instituted by Heads of France > 1824-1836 Bernard-Francois de Chauvelin (Coppetard) †-†)
-to commemorate the Coppetards' rise to power

Joan of Arc Day

-long revered by French people as symbol of the nation
-but renewed by Country folders/Europe/France/Area/Religion > Independent Catholicism in France, which makes her their leading saint

Bastille Day

-chief national day of France
-world-famous military parade on this day

Mother's Day

-idea of motherhood strengthened by France being constantly at war
-idea that Assumption Day represents some sort of general motherhood strengthened by this
-and as part of secularizing reforms Assumption Day turned to Mother's Day

Veterans Day

-instituted with military defeat of French Wars > Fourth French War (1880-4))
-to provide for memoriam of dead not only of this war but of all wars

Name	Date	Notes
New Years' Day	January 1
Equality Day	January 21	Commemorates the execution of Louis XVI by the French people (1793)
Victory Day	March 15	Commemorates the French victory in the French Wars > Fifth French War (1892-5))
Easter Monday	Floating
Workers Day	April 23	Commemorates the Aix-la-Chapelle > Cour de Katche riot (1877)
Constitution Day	May 3	Commemorates the Glorious Reform (1824) of the French Constitution
Joan of Arc Day	May 30	Commemorates the martyrdom (1431) of French national hero Joan of Arc
Bastille Day	July 14	Commemorates the Storming of the Bastille (1789)
Reunion Day	August 10	Commemorates the Storming of the Tuileries (1792)
Mother's Day	August 15	Still often known as Assumption Day, as it was known prior to the Amendments to the Concordat (1857)
Republic Day	September 22	Commemorates the Declaration of the French Republic (1792)
Veterans Day	October 3	Commemorates the end of the French Wars > Fourth French War (1880-4))
All Saints' Day	November 1
Christmas	December 25
Second Day of Christmas	December 26	Still often known as St. Stephen's Day, as it was known prior to the Amendments to the Concordat (1857)

Constitution

# Religion > File not found: Country folders/Europe/France/Area/Religion # Parts of the French Republic -see Parts of the French Republic # Infrastructure ## Railways

Railways > ^531327 >>

-French Republic a lot more happy about laying down railways than OTL
-with it having a lot more coal fields with Belgium, Sarre, and part of Ruhr
-and needing to maintain national security in much more hostile Europe
-Pierre Michel Moisson-Desroches presents proposal in 1814 to make seven major railway tracks to centralize nation
-Paris to Genoa by Lyon and and Marseilles
-Paris to Bordeaux
-Paris to Nantes
-Paris to Le Havre, by Rouen
-Paris to Calais, by Boulogne
-Paris to Gand, by Lille
-Paris to Mayence
-proposal gets accepted, French government immediately gets to work, focusing on Paris to Lille first
-opens railway from Paris to [insert suburb here] in 1817 with steam locomotive passing to and from it
-gauge of one and a half metres, based on cart size
-extended to Saint-Denis in 1823, construction up to Roissy-en-France planned
-that, too, constructed in 1832 (delayed by war)
-by 1834, railway has reached Creil, and construction backwards has begun on railway from Lille to Arras
-along with subcontractors developing railway to and from Mayence, additionally from Aix-la-Chappelle to Cologne
-by 1837, railway from Paris to Lille constructed
-by 1844, all these proposed railroads constructed incl. one from Lille to Cologne, and railway built to Milan too (with others built in Italy)
-in addition, work begun in 1833 on Turin-Modane railway, with big obstacle being Mont Cenis
-relatively new innovation of percussion drill used in US (American Infrastructure > Pennsylvania Mainline Canal) crucial to this
-railway opened in 1849, thanks to new tech
-and during French Wars > Third French War (1847-54), railroads constructed to Sarrebruck, others along German border
-postwar a lot of private companies get in on the business, but they do a lot more localized ones but with state pushing through powerful control
-and railroads built across the Rhine as well
-rising density of railroads, particularly in the eastern part, although with state control of most important railroads and very much regulation of the rest, no Railway Mania equivalent

Grand chemins

-highways
-following French Wars > Sixth French War (1937-41) France constructs a series of highways across the nation
-there's a series of roads established across the country as part of efforts to send troops across the country
-and also as part of Pyreolophore > Autophores boom
-eventually comes oil shocks of the 1950s with Near Eastern wars of independence
-and with it there's a massive decline in people using them
-results in dissatisfaction with subsidizing chemins for the rich
-and eventually tolls are imposed on all the roads which collapses their prominence
-also comes the rise of railroads in its place

Canals

-Rhine-Rhone Canal
-connects Rhine with southerly Rhone Canal
-Marne-Rhine Canal
-connects Rhine with Paris
-Canal de Bourgogne
-completed and made pretty wide
-an economic triumph

Colonies

Laurent Marques

East Indies > French-aligned states in East Indies >>

French-aligned states in East Indies

-Formosan Republic

-Philippine Republic

-Sultanate of Maguindanao

-Sultanate of Sulu

-Zamboanga Colony

-Sultanate of Aceh Darussalam
-initially able to keep independence due to anglo-dutch rivalry
-dutch invasion begins in 1887, but sultan calls for jihad
-procures large french arms, dutch fail to get aristocracy on side
-eventually in 1894 dutch leave with face-saving measures
-large chinese immigration as part of reconstruction, causes some issues
-french protection now a thing, but france unable to enlargen influence greatly

-Sultanate of Kedah
-france goes to war with siam, forces it to give up malay suzerain states
-unifies kedah and partitioned kingdoms of setul, perlis, and kubang basu, incorporates terang into it
-british control of penang means france cannot centralize rule over kedah, means it stays indep for most part

-Sultanate of Patani
-france goes to war with siam, forces it to give up malay suzerain states
-unifies patani with kelantan
-france centralizes power to a degree over patani, but can't go all the way

-Sultanate of Terengganu
-france goes to war with siam, forces it to give up malay suzerain states

-Singgora Colony
-annexed by france after war with siam
-turns into major trade port, sees widespread migration
-results in muslims (majority malay) becoming plurality
-but thai, chinese people major presence as well

-Clangue Colony
-dispute over succession in Clangue, selangor causes civil war in 1880s where france intervenes
-results in france gaining selangor as influenced territory, also gets Cangue more strongly
-eventually gets Clangue as formal colony to develop as port

-New Guinea Colony
-includes almost all of the island of new guinea
-except for western bits ruled by dutch-aligned ternate and and stuff south of 8th parallel ruled by british australia

Republic of New Holland

Protectorate of Lagos

Republic of Lagos > ^d5b16d >>

-rail-building to and from French outposts to Lagos, connecting coastal region
-in the age of colonial nationalization, Lagos becomes the informal capital of France's Niger Coast Protectorate

French Republic

Statistics

Administration

Geography

Demography

Symbols

Government

Flag

Equality Day

Workers Day

Constitution Day

Joan of Arc Day

Bastille Day

Mother's Day

Veterans Day

Constitution

Grand chemins

Canals

Colonies

French-aligned states in East Indies

Protectorate of Lagos

Daughter Republics

Formosan Republic

Philippine Republic