While France suffered through revolutions every few months, the majority of my family decided to make certain they would not have another chance to conquer the known world.  One of our more successful agendas was the unification of the Germanies under a single ruler.  They proved a very useful foil to the French during the 1800s.  Of course, during the 1900s, they became a problem to the rest of our plans.  That was unfortunate.