France wins the Napoleonic Wars

England's strategy has always been to foil any one power on the continent from gaining power over the whole of Europe, a strategy they excel at. England successfully followed a policy of continental containment of Napoleon and his allies, and strangled trade between the home countries allied with Napoleon (either by occupation or choice [witness Denmark, which sided with Napoleon once the English attacked neutral Danish shipping and blockaded Danish trade for their neutrality]) and their various colonies. England built coalitions and engaged France and French 'allies' when necessary. They would have been able to maintain this strategy for another generation or so, just by using their navy and judicious deployment of their armies where effective. English trade with the greater world would have been largely unimpeded, while they denied colonial dividends from France and allies. If anything, the French revolution hastened the end of French colonial expansion, particularly in North America, depriving French business from a naturally sympathetic colonial market. The sale of Louisiana by Napoleon was to give France funds to continue their war effort as they witnessed the futility of an American front while occupying so many hostile countries in continental Europe.  

In my opinion, the -real- question is what may have happened had the French revolution rendered the French monarchy as a constitutional monarchy, by-passing the violence of Maximillian de Robespierre and, essentially, Napoleon Bonepart himself. All of the treasure lost as the result of the revolutionary wars instead invested into French colonial enterprises. France may have maintained her world wide empire, Louisiana may have given the edge to France in North America, containing the United States to west of the Mississippi. That would be a curious world indeed.  Maybe India would have become a Jewel in the French Crown? French Australia? French Hong Kong? A French puppet monarchy in Egypt? A Dutch South Africa? 

Yeah, the people and soldiers loved him. Not really why, but they did. If France would won the wars, it wouldn't matter, it would all fell apart right after his death.

But it would be nice to see the idea of republic get it's momento in Europe in the early 1800s.