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  1. JonasResende

    Effects of the Expulsion of the Huguenots on the French Economy

    A more solid system of banking than the tax-farmers and loans from people like Tournehem and Pâris (Madame de Pompadour's purported father) could be fascinating to see a Banque of France being established. I don't know what influence the Huguenots had in France or in Austria, but Austria got...
  2. JonasResende

    Effects of the Expulsion of the Huguenots on the French Economy

    Louis XIV expelled the Huguenots from France with the 1685 Edict of Fontainebleau (also known as the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes). As a result, you had many Huguenots making their way to England, Holland, the Palatinate (where the Neuburg succession would soon force them to Catholicize...
  3. JonasResende

    List of Alternate Monarchs and Aristocratic Lineage

    Interesting. Would a princess of Brunswick really be considered for Josef I's son though? I'm always for surviving Habsburgs, so that's great, I just wonder what she'd bring to the table? Or would Joseph I probably having married his Danish bride here mean that a match with Brunswick is more...
  4. JonasResende

    Joseph Ferdinand as King of Spain

    Theoretically, it would be Max IIRC from research I did for a TL when I first joined the board. However, Carlos could easily have left alternate instructions. TBH? Not much. For the first 50years of the 18th century, Bavaria was beig outstripped (in terms of progress) by Prussia, Saxony, even...
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    WI: War of the Bavarian Succession, 17th Century?

    I don't think the situations are THAT similar. Although I agree that Louis Quatorze is NOT his great-great-grandson. Karl Theodor was a foreigner who arrived from the Palatinate when he was already in his fifties. Who his heir would be was...well...up in the air because he and his wife had no...
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    WI: War of the Bavarian Succession, 17th Century?

    If I'd put money on it, I'd say Brandenburg sides with the Palatinate. The families have intermarried enough in the last century or so, but also because of religion. True, this ISN'T suddenly going to make Bavaria Protestant, but German princes tended to get crabby about imperial preferment. To...
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    WI: Johann Friedrich of Brunswick-Calenberg Has a Son?

    Sheesh Kel, I get married, move, have a kid and by the time I come back you've got a Wettin Spain, a Protestant Bavaria and a Catholic Hannover :winkytongue:? Still, gotta admit, agree with Constantine that this gives the Habsburgs some "fresh blood". Unfortunately, the "freshness" only lasts a...
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    AHC: Augustus the Strong, King of Spain, or a Wettin Spain

    Well, this is an interesting - not to mention novel - idea ;) That said, I'd be very interested to see how the relationships between the Spanish Wettins and their Saxon cousins are. Do we see some more German (i.e. Bavarian, Welf, odd Hesse rather than Habsburg) queens of Spain? Is there...
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    WI: Josephine Pregnant by Lazare Hoche?

    As this extract from the paper Josephine Beheaded: So...what if Lazare Hoche had knocked up Josephine. And, for sanity's sake, let's assume that he's certain he's the father (and that Hoche missed his wedding to his OTL wife). How does this affect things?
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    PC: Prince Frederick's Plan for Henry, Duke of Cumberland = No ARW?

    Venning doesn't say, simply underlines that there was more "gentry" in the south than further north
  11. JonasResende

    Louis 15th dies in 1712

    Hadn't he done that in 1710/11 already though?
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    PC: Prince Frederick's Plan for Henry, Duke of Cumberland = No ARW?

    According to Tim Venning, Frederick, Prince of Wales had a plan to create his third son, Henry, "duke of Virginia". More than that, Poor Fred apparently also intended to send his son to the West Indies as a sort of viceroy of the West Indies+Georgia, Carolina etc. Fred's whole idea was to...
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    How to Butterfly/Squash Prussian Militarism?

    Voltaire famously commented that "all states have an army, the Prussian army has a state". After the Soldier-King Friedrich Wilhelm I Prussia tended to follow a strong military policy (thanks, no doubt to Frederick the Great). But Fritz was mocked as "effeminate" by his father for his unmanly...
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    WI: Realistic Courlander Overseas Empire?

    Why can I see it lasting until the 20th century and then the Americans being even more panicky about Russian Tobago, Cuba and a "red threat" in the Caribbean?
  15. JonasResende

    How Would the Comte de Chambord Marrying a Russian Grand Duchess Work?

    What about a compromise scenario? He met Lili in 1843 in Germany. If he's king of France I doubt he's going to be junketing off across the Rhine (look at Pedro II), so perhaps keep the 1830 deposition in place. That way, Henri only needs to travel from Frohsdorf (in Lower Austria) to Russian...
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    WI: Realistic Courlander Overseas Empire?

    Which Russia likely loses to Britain during the Congress of Vienna?
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    WI: Realistic Courlander Overseas Empire?

    OTL Courland had an overseas empire in the Caribbean and Senegal, but by the 1660s it was sort of dead in the water, and when Jakob I died in 1682, his son basically ended all attempts at colonization IIRC. In alt-history I've seen two alternate Courlands colonize places like New Zealand or the...
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    Marriages for French Royals in Case of No Revolution?

    Another person(s) whose marriage prospects would be affected would be the kids of Prince Xavier of Saxony. OTL only one of them married into the French nobility, and Xavier's son was killed in a duel with a Russian (?) Count in 1802. But before the Revolution, Xavier's son had been enrolled in...
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    WI: Hansl im Keller, or a Son for Karl VI?

    An idea for Tuscany, although this MAY be a stretch. According to Andersen: Now, how true this is I'm not sure. Karl VI had a doltish belief (perhaps justified) that he would outlive his wife and have a son. It might be Andersen staring with hindsight where Karl VI's agreement with Mainz...
  20. JonasResende

    WI: Hansl im Keller, or a Son for Karl VI?

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