Lord Lyons

The Republic had barely been chosen when Thiers discovered he rather liked it—especially now that he was its chief. But the election of the Orleans princes threatens to turn France’s fragile settlement into another contest for power.

In the years after the Franco-Prussian War, France is trying to govern itself while royalists and republicans struggle over what kind of country it will become. From Paris and Versailles, British ambassador Lord Lyons watches Thiers bargain with the Assembly, the princes gather supporters, and German demands for payment press on a nation already in turmoil. Across the Channel, a new commercial treaty brings another contest: Thiers wants room to protect French industry, while Lyons must defend Britain’s trading interests without turning negotiation into retaliation. Can a republic this uncertain find common ground with Britain—or even with itself?

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