Kyavan wrote:Nouvelle Amerique wrote:Nouvelle Amerique is the North American holdings of the French Colonial Empire which started in 1608 with the founding of Quebec. From 1608-1750, the territory was controlled directly by the French monarch until a meeting with a visiting foreign Lord, convinced King Louis XV to name his family and any direct descendants as Territorial Governor in 1753. From 1753 until the start of the British colonist's revolt in 1775, the family served the King and presided over an area that stretched as far north as the Arctic Circle to the Gulf of Mexico in the south as a puppet government. The provincial capital of the territory was New Orleans.
Following the British defeat in 1783, the second Territorial Governor of New France (Nouvelle Amerique) petitioned the French king to cede the territory to his family permanently in exchange for eight million francs and a supplemental offering of 25,000 francs annually for the next 20 years. Louis XVI agreed and ceded the Louisiana territory and the Canadian territories.
In 1790, Nouvelle Amerique was officially recognised and incorporated as a monarchy by the French. With the Territorial Governor becoming King. The same family has ruled Nouvelle
Amerique since, carrying a 229-year dynasty into the 21st century.
Its amazing you've been able to hold onto all that power for such a long time. Where there not revolts that would have toppled your government?
There certainly were protests and minor revolts over the years but nothing that collapsed the monarchy. However, the one event that seriously threatened the monarchy occurred in 1833.
The Pheasant Storm of 1833 was a major event for King Benjamin I, as farmers and parcel landowners protested by throwing pheasants and storming the nation's armoury. The protest nearly toppled the kingdom but was resolved after three years with the Traité de Poulet (literally, the Chicken Treaty) that devolved the king's power significantly over matters of land rights. This followed with a sort of Nouvelle Amerique 'Magna Carta' situation in 1841 when Benjamin I was forced to sign the Droits de Tous les Hommes (The Rights of All Men) in May 1841 allowing citizens significant civil rights and personal freedom in exchange for a royal mandate to rule.