Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to find a way to split France into a set of mutually hostile states. The catch? You need to do it with a PoD no earlier than 1800. I await your input.
Aaaaaaaaaand GO!
Split France into Brittany, Occitania, Catalonia and an independent Alsace. The problem is getting like this. It is difficult.
Seemples.
I was thinking maybe a Napoleonic War which drags on for much longer (five more years?), leaving the Coalition less inclined to keep France whole lest it "rise again". Sort of a 19th-century Morgenthau Plan. Plausibility check?
Those started 1803. Please read the original post.
Well, I suppose not. Simple suspicion and lack of a drive to reunify will do just fine for my purposes.They need to hate each other? It is difficult to find groups in history which hated each and every of their neighbors.
Germany wins WWI and apoligizes to Belgium with adding Norther France
Taking some more for itself , Give Italy some land in the south (To compensate the loss of Venice to A-H) Bribe spain with a bit of southern france...
Make Brittany a separate state, allow to form a Vichy state,...
Germany wins WWI and apoligizes to Belgium with adding Norther France
Taking some more for itself , Give Italy some land in the south (To compensate the loss of Venice to A-H) Bribe spain with a bit of southern france...
Make Brittany a separate state, allow to form a Vichy state,...
This is fairly ASB...
Maybe something where the Paris Commune is successful and the revolution spreads, leading to a France split between German occupied north (to protect them from those godless Communards! Don't mind us mining all those coal while we're here...), Communard center, and 'Free French' south.
Okay, so my post-Napoleonic Morgenthau Plan is definitely out, then? Too bad.
This is fairly ASB...
Maybe something where the Paris Commune is successful and the revolution spreads, leading to a France split between German occupied north (to protect them from those godless Communards! Don't mind us mining all those coal while we're here...), Communard center, and 'Free French' south.
Maybe a longer German occupation after the Franco-Prussian War? Alsace & Lorraine annexed to Germany, independencd for the Paris Commune and a kind of puppet state in Northern France. Also, have Piedmont-Sardinia keep Nice and Savoy, and possibly indpendent Corsica?
Heh, great minds and all that.
I'm not sure about Italy keeping or taking back Nice & Savoy though. Nice at least was culturally and linguistically French.
No, actually Nice was Italian, Savoy was French. Culturally speaking.