Imperial State of France

The Imperial State of France is a Puppet State of Germany. It is ruled by Napoleon VI the paternal grandson of Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte. It was a Puppet State of the German Empire since it's establishment by Germany with the support of Bonaparte Monarchists who felt that France's Third Republic was crap due to the Third Republic not improving the Military and upgrading the uniform in a way that would not result in maximized French Casualties everyday and the fact it was the Third Republic's fault for France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War.

## History

### Aftermath of Franco-Prussian War

The Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871 resulted in the defeat of France and the overthrow of Emperor Napoleon III and his Second French Empire. After Napoleon's capture by the Prussians at the Battle of Sedan (1 September 1870), Parisian deputies led by Léon Gambetta established the Government of National Defence as a provisional government on 4 September 1870. The deputies then selected General Louis-Jules Trochu to serve as its president. This first government of the Third Republic ruled during the Siege of Paris (19 September 1870 – 28 January 1871). As Paris was cut off from the rest of unoccupied France, the Minister of War, Léon Gambetta, who succeeded in leaving Paris in a hot air balloon, established the headquarters of the provisional republican government in the city of Tours on the Loire river.

After the French surrender in January 1871, the provisional Government of National Defence disbanded, and national elections were called with the aim of creating a new French government. French territories occupied by Prussia at this time did not participate. The resulting conservative National Assembly elected Adolphe Thiers as head of a provisional government, nominally ("head of the executive branch of the Republic pending a decision on the institutions of France"). Due to the revolutionary and left-wing political climate that prevailed in the Parisian population, the right-wing government chose the royal palace of Versailles as its headquarters.

The new government negotiated a peace settlement with the newly proclaimed German Empire: the Treaty of Frankfurt signed on 10 May 1871. To prompt the Prussians to leave France, the government passed a variety of financial laws, such as the controversial *Law of Maturities*, to pay reparations. In Paris, resentment against the government built and from late March – May 1871, Paris workers and National Guards revolted and established the Paris Commune, which maintained a radical left-wing regime for two months until its bloody suppression by the Thiers government in May 1871. The following repression of the *communards* would have disastrous consequences for the labour movement.

### Parliamentary Monarchy

The French legislative election of 1871, held in the aftermath of the collapse of the regime of Napoleon III, resulted in a monarchist majority in the French National Assembly that was favourable to making a peace agreement with Prussia. The "Legitimists" in the National Assembly supported the candidacy of a descendant of King Charles X, the last monarch from the senior line of the Bourbon Dynasty, to assume the French throne: his grandson Henri, Comte de Chambord, alias "Henry V." The Orléanists supported a descendant of King Louis Philippe I, who replaced his cousin Charles X as the French monarch in 1830: his grandson Louis-Philippe, Comte de Paris. The Bonapartists were marginalized due to the defeat of Napoléon III and were unable to advance the candidacy of any member of his family, the Bonaparte family. Legitimists and Orléanists came to a compromise, eventually, whereby the childless Comte de Chambord would be recognised as king, with the Comte de Paris recognised as his heir; this was the expected line of succession for the Comte de Chambord by France's traditional rule of agnatic primogeniture if the renunciation of the Spanish Bourbons in the Peace of Utrecht was recognised. Consequently, in 1871 the throne was offered to the Comte de Chambord.

Chambord believed the restored monarchy had to eliminate all traces of the Revolution (including most famously the Tricolour flag) in order to restore the unity between the monarchy and the nation, which the revolution had sundered apart. Compromise on this was impossible if the nation were to be made whole again. The general population, however, was unwilling to abandon the Tricolour flag. Monarchists therefore resigned themselves to wait for the death of the aging, childless Chambord, when the throne could be offered to his more liberal heir, the Comte de Paris. A "temporary" republican government was therefore established. Chambord lived on until 1883, but by that time, enthusiasm for a monarchy had faded, and as a result the Comte de Paris was never offered the French throne.

### World War I

After the French surrender and the Imperial Territory of Alsace-Lorraine extending all the way to Normandy and annexing Paris, Victor, Prince Napoléon was chosen by the Germans to be the ruler of the remaining independent France. The French Monarchists cheered as they were pleased to have a monarchy back, but the rest of the French Political Parties decided to riot and throw shit at the monarchy.

After Victor, Prince Napoléon crowned himself as Napoleon V, the Syndicalists started to riot throwing insults at the new Emperor, but he had them silenced by the Military and Police. French Syndicalists retreated to the Island of Svalbard where hordes of Communist Parties in Europe live and is ruled by Leon Trotsky as the Republicans retreated to Quebec.

### After World War I

Napoleon V ruled France which prospered despite suffering raids by the Syndicalists for many years until 1926 when he died. His son Louis, Prince Napoléon has been crowned Emperor of the French and he gained the title of Napoleon VI.

## Government

The Government of France is a Constitutional Monarchy under a Unitary Authoritarian Dictatorship. The Emperor is a ceremonial ruler who appoints all the members of Parliament as they elect the members of the Privy Council who then elect a President of the Privy Council. The Privy Council then appoints a Prime Minister to govern the Parliament with an administration.

#### **Administrative Cabinet of the French Government**

* **Emperor:** Napoleon VI
* **President of the Privy Council:** Philippe Pétain
* **Prime Minister:** Jean-Francois Darlan
* **Foreign Minister:** Paul Baudouin
* **Armament Minister:** Marius Berliet
* **Minister of Defense:** Joseph Barthélemy
* **Minister of Intelligence:** Rene Bousquet
* **Chief of Staff:** Charles Huntziger
* **Chief of Army:** Maxime Weygand
* **Chief of Navy:** Jean Marie Abrial
* **Chief of Air:** Jean Marie Bergeret
* **Chief of Military Police:** Joseph Darnand

## Military

### Army

The Army of Imperial France has 150 Infantry Brigades, 140 Calvary Units, 130 Mechanized Infantry Units, 120 Artillery Pieces, 110 Gun Cars and 100 Tanks. The Army is under command of Maxime Weygand.

### Navy

The Navy has 120 Submarines, 99 Destroyers, 76 Battleships and 12 Aircraft carriers that are used to defend the vast coast of the Imperial State from invaders. The Navy is under command of Jean Marie Abrial.

### Air Force

The Airforce has 199 War Planes trained by the German Air Force and is under command of Jean Marie Bergeret.

## Foreign Relations

Great Relations with the German Empire, Kingdom of France, Spanish Empire, Italian Empire, Kingdom of Monaco, Maharajahnate of Morocco, Kingdom of Belgium and Tsardom of Russia.

## Economy

It's a thriving economy which it got there after so much instability from Syndicalists and riots against the legitimacy of the Napoleon V.