Tierre and Mac Mann's Success in the French Civil War

Marshal patris mac man was one of the few senior officers to emerge from the franco prussian war with his reputation enhanced rather than diminished. The biggest consequence being that they did not ram through the return of the monarchy. Ditching the republic was likely to cause even more revolutionary unrest out there, and tierre didn't have those troops to spare. Both lessened the possibility of provincial revolt and mutiny inside the army.