The end of the Third Republic had also ended the Laws of Exile that had barred any of the three claimants to the French Throne from entering French soil. Two of the three claimants leapt at the chance to bring back the glory of France under the crown. With the so-called Napoleon VI and Jean III both arriving in Paris from exile with great support especially as Napoleon VI had lost his left leg in the Goa'uld war when fighting under a nom de plume in FIET-1. Jean III on the other hand had advocated for intervening in Russia and Mexico early on and swore to uphold the democratic rights of the French people. The only one of the French claimants that did not move to gather support was the Legitimist claim which had merged with the Carlists in Spain following Alfonse Charles I, leaving all his titles to Xavier I. As the Monarchists campaigned around France pointing out the weakness of the prior Republic and how stable the new states under the rule of a Monarch were ignoring the Mayan Republic in America. To counter this many politicians from the Third Republic ran around France reinforcing the revolutionary nature of the French people, with the proposed Fourth Republic being effectively and copy of the Third. The weakest of the main three contenders were the Communists not due to their anti-democratic nature they had agreed to the provisional French Constitution that mandated a democratic state but due to their public image. The only Communist state had been the Worker's Revolutionary Republic in Russia and their genocide of the Chechens proved worrying to the Breton, Basque and Occitan minorities of France. Thus, while the Monarchists and Republicans debated on what was more democratic and stable the Communists were forced to run around denouncing genocide and racism which allowed their opponents to hit them on the idea that they supported the end of the French colonial Empire.

As election day drew closer a radical Spanish Republican who had fled north of the border following the Carlist victory decided to act against what he saw as the reactionaries entrenching themselves across Europe. Jean III and his son Henry were touring the city of Marseille on the 25th of May to drum up support in the south. As Jean spoke the Republican slipped through the ranks of the crowd until he was close enough to hit with a stone a pistol would be easy. Just as the Republican pulled out the gun and shot twice Prince Henry stepped forward to speak and both of the bullets hit him in the chest. As Prince Henry collapsed on the stage the Republican was dragged to the ground and dragged off to prison. The murder of Prince Henry proved to be a terrible piece of publicity as the assassin had written a manifesto supporting the Republican campaign. The brutal murder and manifesto calling for the murder of any and all royalty no matter their age allowed the monarchists to rise in the polls while the Republican refusal to openly denounce the man led to both the moderates and the radicals leaving the movement. When the day of the referendum came the whole world watched the polls with interest.

The election resulted in a strange result with the Constitutional Monarchists winning 43% of the vote winning the largest share of the vote by exactly 35 votes. The Communists won 14% of the vote concentrated around the urban regions and mines of the north. The Republicans won 42.9% of the vote and the people turned to deciding which of the two claims to the French throne to place in Paris. The Bonapartists brought back memories of when France stood astride Europe and none save Perfidious Albion stood against them. While the House of Orleans brought back the memories of the long democratic tradition of the French people. The arguments that raged in the halls of power and across the streets reminded many of the end of the Third Republic and so perhaps that is why the people of France choose their near unique form of government. To the south of France and the north of Aragon sits the Co-Principality of Andorra which had a unique form of government with two Princes one being the Head of State of France and one being the Bishop of Urgell. The military intervened again and made Napoleon VI and Jean III agree to forming a government similar to that of Andorra and the Federation of Judea. The French Federation was formed from the Third French Empire under Emperor Napoleon VI, the Kingdom of the French under King Jean III, and the Fourth French Republic as a sop to the Republicans. Their parliaments were the same and all laws had to be signed by both monarchs and the President. The French Federation had arisen from the ruins of the Third French Republic it has yet to fail though the Kaiserreich has outstripped them.

-Extract from a low regarded blog post in the academic community due to skimming over many of the vital details but it is widely seen as a good brief on the end of the Third Republic

The meeting between the allies and the Tok'ra was strange experience held on the homeworld of the Dawi Jolinar had managed to arrange the meeting on a neutral world and Karaz-a-Karak proved acceptable to both governments. The negotiations were led by Tolkien due to his nominally honorary position in the Imperial Diplomatic service which he used far more often then he should have according to my contact within the interstellar branch. Anyway, Tolkien somehow ended up to agreeing to an alliance with the Tok'ra against the Goa'uld and part of that was that in order for the Tok'ra to aid the allies in the best way they can that Jolinar would join IIET-1. The diaries of Edith Tolkien at this time were a ten-page rant while her husbands were musings on the Hobbit and if he should make a female character. The addition of Jolinar was met with one of the founding members on Private Oswald Mosley retiring from Imperial Stargate Command to pursue a career in Imperial politics just in time for the 1934 Elections.

-Extract from Christopher Bowes's book The Bloody Wolves of the Stars: A history of Imperial Stargate Command