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  1. DrakeRlugia

    France gets Burgundian Inheritance, what now?

    I'll side-step 'how' France inherits Burgundy for now, since that's a difficult question and there's a variety ways for us to get there (heiress marrying the king/future king, line dying out, ect). The big thing is that any dissolution of the House of Valois-Burgundy will give the French claims...
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    WI: Maria Theresa of Austria married Charles III of Spain?

    Well, it would be distinct branches—not all under one person. The French and Spanish Bourbons did not always walk in lockstep, and especially in the period after the War of the Spanish Succession they often were in conflict (see: War of the Quadruple Alliance, failure of the match between Louis...
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    WI: Maria Theresa of Austria married Charles III of Spain?

    Maria Theresa, Charles VI's heiress, was at the center of his plans of what might happen following his eventual demise. While there were plans dating back to 1703 that discussed contingency plans if the male Habsburg line was to die out: mainly granting succession rights to Joseph I's...
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    What if Japan was a colonial super power before the 19th century?

    For Spain and Portugal, yes. France's most profitable colonies in the New World were not it's extensive territories in Canada and Louisiana, but rather it's Caribbean territories. By the end of the Seven Years War, France gave up New France just to retain Guadeloupe and Martinique, as it's...
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    WI: rice and rubber became cultivated in the Mediterrranean and Europe starting from Roman times?

    IIRC, the Romans were aware of rice, but it was mostly a luxury import. They imported Oryza Sativa from India, and there's some proof that it was also imported from lower Syria and even Bactria. Strabo talks about rice in one of his books, as does Horace. Even in the areas where rice had spread...
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    Louis XV makes more of an effort to marry his daughters off

    Indeed. Victor Amadeus II was married to Anne Marie d'Orléans. His son, Charles Emmanuel was fairly fluid in his alliances: fought alongside France in the War of the Polish Succession, supported Maria Theresa in the War of the Austrian Succession, sat out the Seven Years War. His son, Victor...
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    Plausibility check- Could France & French Indochina have been disinterested in Laos, crisis with Siam, and common border with British Burma?

    IIRC, the French found out quite quickly in the 1860s via the 1866-68 Mekong expedition that the Mekong wasn't navigable and would be useless in regards to facilitating French trade with southern China. The main issue is that rather than forget it, the French had high hopes that engineering...
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    The English Charlemagne: A Plantagenet-Capet TL

    This is definitely an interesting idea to ponder Nuraghe, as you discussed in the other thread. I do worry about what might happen after Edward III, though: even if he manages to succeed to such glorious heights and surpass Charlemagne and becomes a new Augustus, it is worth considering what...
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    Anno Obumbratio: A 16th Century Alternate History

    She actually does get married! But much later in life. I don't wanna spoil it, so I've left it off for now. I thought people might be happy about this. You're very welcome!
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    Anno Obumbratio: A 16th Century Alternate History
    Threadmarks: Addendum: Dynastic Trees (Updated to 1559)

    Alright, I figured it was better to have a new post for family trees rather than updated the old ones. These are updated to 1559, at least in some areas but they are also subject to change. Some marriages have been plotted out, others have not. Some lives have been plotted out and some have not...
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    Anno Obumbratio: A 16th Century Alternate History

    Mary Stuart is one that comes to mind sans Catherine of Aragon. IIRC, the Guises harbored some hopes of marrying her to Charles IX after François II died. Like Catherine though, Mary was a childless widow and certainly there have been discussions over if there marriage was ever actually...
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    WI Napoléon II: Bourbon Hostage?

    Taking an aggressive strategy would be the absolute wrong move, IMO. The other four great powers initially sought to exclude France all together from the Congress. If France starts taking an aggressive tact, it will only verify that the allies were correct in their original assumptions that...
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    Anno Obumbratio: A 16th Century Alternate History
    Threadmarks: Chapter 45. An English Rose (With Thorns)

    Well... my initial plan was for Chapter 45 to be the conclusion of the Fürstenkrieg / Italian War that began last chapter. This chapter started as a thread within that part 2, but I quickly realized that the situation I was setting up could not be covered in a few paragraphs and it was quickly...
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    WI Napoléon II: Bourbon Hostage?

    The Bourbons are not trying to turn him into a minister or advisor, though—they are raising him as French prince who will be reared among the Bourbon princes of the new generation. They need not promise him anything but simply raise him among their own as their own. In 1814 the King of Rome is a...
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    WI Napoléon II: Bourbon Hostage?

    Resolving the land / property ownership question earlier would perhaps help some. The ideal would be a reconciliation between the émigrés and the idea of emigration vs. those that stayed behind and the idea of the revolution. Obviously there's no real way to make the émigrés whole again: at...
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    WI Napoléon II: Bourbon Hostage?

    Nice chapters Kellan! I love Artois and Madame Royale ganging up on Louis XVIII. Indeed, he was promised two million francs (which was something in the ball park of £80,000) iirc? France is also not in good financial shape. Louis XVIII inherited a deficit of 75 million francs from Napoleon...
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    Louis XV makes more of an effort to marry his daughters off

    To be fair, it wasn’t necessarily Louis XV being picky—he had the misfortune of having a vast number of daughters at time with lots of other royal families also had a lot of daughters. There was sort of an explosion of the number of surviving princesses/princes within Europe’s royal families at...
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    How could Nice and Savoy remained Italian (or technically Sardinian)?

    They already were. To be fair, the territories were Savoyard prior to the French Revolution, and then the French occupied both Savoy and Nice in the 1790s. IIRC, the initial Treaty of Paris in 1814 that ended the Napoleonic Wars was pretty lenient on France—France kept her 1792 borders...
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    Anno Obumbratio: A 16th Century Alternate History

    Genoa's status was covered back in Chapter 37 as well. To sum it up, some functions of Genoa's civil government were restored: there is a lower council composed of 100 members, elected by lot, and the Senate of Genoa is composed of 80 noblemen, appointed. They have no legislative function, but...
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    Anno Obumbratio: A 16th Century Alternate History

    He was married previously to Maria of Lorraine (the OTL Marie of Guise). An unhappy marriage, but she did succeed in giving him a son, named Claudio. Ercole does have issue with Beatriz—a daughter Isabella, but she was born when Beatriz is 46. They did not have any further issue. This is a real...
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