Why can't I play a paladin of the French revolution?

>Communist "revolutionaries"

Yes, by essence.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Commune_(French_Revolution)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Commune

>why can't I play a holy warrior dedicated to maintaining order that fights for an atheist overthrow of the establishment?

Don't see why not

>Not following the cult of the Supreme Being
Bro, do you even Robespierre

>Paris Commune
I'll guillotine you for that.

A hilarious anecdote about the Paris Commune: Courbet supported it and during it encouraged others to tear down Napoleon's column at the Place de la Republique because it was deemed "a permanent insult against all defeated nations" [it celebrated Austerlitz, Napoleon's greatest victory]. After the based republic BTFO the proto-commies, the Republican government restored the column, held Courbet accountable for everything and put everything on his tab. He fled the country, all of his assets were seized and the column restored to its former glory, standing until this very day.

Now let's hope our American friends will follow France's example in dealing with iconoclasts.

What powers should a Revolutionnaire paladin possess?

>Law of Hostages
when suffering damage, can inflict equal damage to another enemy
>Law of Suspects
Marks an enemy, making him visible and more vulnerable
>Law of Prairial
maximizes damage against marked enemies
>Le Chapelier Law
isolate opponents from each other
>Law of the Maximum
guarantees commerce at a fair price.

Any ideas about subfactions?

Why couldn't you? One happens to be key character in very famous tale of revolution era.

But user you can, there are editions that do not require a paladin to be lawful nor good.

>(disambiguation)
France, pls. France.

Dear God, the French version of the page is even longer. What the fuck France?

To be fair the average lifespan of a French government since the first revolution is comically short and there were many attempted revolutions.

Well, bloodthirtiness a pretty important french trait. IIRC we went through more than ten changes of regime since the Revolution, from monarchy to communism and back. If a political systme exist, we probably tried it, after baptizing it with the blood of the vanquished.

Why do you think strike action is guaranteed by the French constitution? It's because when it wasn't the case, we had civil wars on our hands every ten year or so. At least now they (mostly) only hurl insults and tomatoes at politicians.

Concert of Europe. The whole Ancien Regime went "Bourbin dindu nuffin, dey good boys" even though the French CLEARLY didn't want them.

Long story short, after Napoleon (whom the French actually liked) being removed by foreign(!) powers, the king was brought back (this is also btw why France was represented in Vienna and barely punished: the monarch was deemed a "victim" of the revolution) under one condition: the Charter of 1814. It was rather liberal charter that more or less functioned like the 1791 constitution (which Louis XVI actively undermined) with one major issue: it was not deemed a constitution, but a "gift" from the king that did not undermine his divine right to rule. As such, it could be "taken back". Louis XVIII didn't do this, and as a result was the last French king to die in office. His successor Charles X decided he wanted to return to the pre-Bastille situation entirely and revoked the Charter, leading to the 1830 revolution that ended up with Louis-Phillipe of House Orléans (a cadet branch of the Bourbons) taking over (mostly because his father, nicknamed "Philippe Égalité", was a supporter of the revolution prior to its anti-monarchist phase).

Anyway, Louis-Philippe posited himself as the "Citizen King", the compromise between revolution and monarchy, and was therefore deemed acceptable by the people of France... for 18 years, when he revealed his true colors and started becoming a hardline conservative. That's when the French declared a republic and elected Napoleon's newphew Louis-Napoléon (nice naming conventions you got there, guys). After his term was up, the French voted to have him declared emperor: Napoleon III. Like his uncle he was massively popular, like his uncle he had to be removed by a foreign power.

And the French STILL tried to have another king after that, who rejected the throne over a dispute about the FUCKING FLAG.

tl;dr: Kings are shit, Republics are passable, France misses the Bonapartes.

What I also wanted to add (but couldn't due to character limits) is that in a way you could see the three French Revolutions as one long revolution with the monarchy making an unwanted comeback.

>who rejected the throne over a dispute about the FUCKING FLAG.
This never ceases to be hilarious.

Napoleon III a shit, tho (unless you're prussian, then I guesds he's an ok guy)

>Napoleon III a shit, tho
Shit compared to his uncle maybe, but overall he was pretty decent. He just gets a bad rep because Hugo hated him, and France thinks as Hugo thinks.

He fucked up in mexico and against the prussians, and didn't leave that much of a mark upon french law, society, and industry.
The third republic being a major clusterfuck is a point in his favor, I guess. As are the crimean and the asian campaigns.

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Because the French revolution was neither lawful nor good.

The French have always been incredibly bloodthirsty. Even back when France was called Gaul.

>Mexico
Not entirely his fault though. The expedition was succesful in that it installed Maximillian as a French puppet ruler, the problem was that the US civil war ended earlier than foreseen, France's allies withdrew support and the Americans started waving their Monroe stick around. With them out of the picture, Maximillian wasn't strong enough to enforce his own power.

>Prussians
Napoleon III is utterly blameless here.
The two big mistakes of France: not having a large conscript army and taking the Emser Depeche bait.

On conscription:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_III#Failure_to_increase_the_size_of_the_French_army
Napoleon III actually proposed a bill to reform the conscription system based on the Prussian system years before the war started. Parliament(!) rejected it.

On the Emser Depeche, most saber rattling once again came from parliament.

>And didn't leave that much of a mark upon French law
Other than anti-poverty laws, opening up the markets and reintroducing universal suffrage not really, no.

>and industry
Nigga, his regime is what coined the term "Industrial Revolution" in the first place. Because the return of the Bourbons effectively stagnating France's industry it couldn't just slowly develop, it had to actively and rapidly be industrialized, which he did.

He's not perfect, was deeply flawed, but not the black sheep Hugo wants you to believe he is.

>France misses the Bonapartes.
Who wouldn't miss the King of Artillery?

And the instigator of civil law, modern police, and modern dictatorship.

and building cities with the Intent of using cannons for crowd control

Haussman? That's 2nd Empire.
But the first instance in France of a city build with crowd control via massive cutaneous application of lead in mind is Neuf Brisach, designed by Vauban under Louis XIV.