Oh, I'm not French. I'm from Wallachia, which has been under the control of the Ottomans for the past few centuries.

[That said, it isn't a bad thing to know how the whole revolution thing goes. What Strange describes is...a little biased, because honestly this seems like old rivalries renewed, but it'll help with Maria's beliefs in the ideals of the revolution going by the wayside.]

But king, republic, different-form-of-king feels about right. I believe that your country had a chaotic in-between period after you all decapitated a king, correct?