Maurois, André. "If Louis XVI had an Atom of Firmness"
Divergence: 1776 CE
What if: Louis XVI was more stubborn and retained Turgot as finance minister.
Summary: An historian from our world goes to Heaven and reads an encyclopedia entry
on the reign of Louis XVI (1774-1820).
Published: In If It Had Happened Otherwise: Lapses Into Imaginary
History, all eds.
(ed. J.C. Squire), q.v.
Original in: English.
Translation: French as
"Si Louis XVI…", in
Mes songes que voici, Grasset 1932.
Translation: German by Walter Brumm as
"Wenn Ludwig XVI. eine Spur von Festigkeit gezeigt hätte", in
Das Science Fiction Jahr
(ed. [[editor unknown]]), Heyne 1986;
and
Wenn Napoleon bei Waterloo gewonnen hätte. Und andere abwegige Geschichten
(ed. J.C. Squire), Heyne 1999 (3453149114).
