If the Second French Empire collapses during the CEW, I can imagine Her and De Gaulle going to exile (perhaps in Germany) and raise the two girls together.

Of course, in the immediate aftermath, the entire royal family is going to flee (Mostly likely to Britain). I would be really satisfiying if Her broke up with Nap V and fleeing with De Gaulle.
I think Napoleon V deserved the satisfaction of asking for a divorce, not his cheating wife.
 
No idea how plausible this is (I know next to nothing about post WWII France internal politics) but that's a hell of a POD for a TL.
Def! Might need to throw together a TLIAW on it
If the Second French Empire collapses during the CEW, I can imagine Her and De Gaulle going to exile (perhaps in Germany) and raise the two girls together.

Of course, in the immediate aftermath, the entire royal family is going to flee (Mostly likely to Britain). I would be really satisfiying if Her broke up with Nap V and fleeing with De Gaulle.
It’s… a weirdly romantic idea
The little pigeon is way too traditional Catholic to ever ask for a divorce.
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I think they have a couple legitimate children, just that she has more with CdG on the side.

Not that that would stop an annulment if everyone wants one of course.
Also. This is correct. She has legit kids with him and then also with CdG
 
Austria, like almost all continental Europe, is not a common law system and thus does not have an adversarial justice system where the judge serves as a referee between defense and prosecution. Very crucially, civil law systems do not have juries, and case law is generally not as important as statutory law.
Adversarial justice systems aren't strictly incompatible with civil law systems (see: Latin America largely dumping the inquisitive model in favor of the accusatory one in recent decades), even if most civil law systems do have an inquisitive system. It's the primacy of statutory law over case law that really separates civil and common law systems.

But yeah, the use of an inquisitive system really helps make it feel like Vienna is putting their thumb on the scale, regardless of whether that is the case.

(No, this has nothing to do with the fact I just started the Penal Process Law subject in college. Okay, it has everything to do with it)
 
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