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https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expédition_française_en_Syrie If done subtly enough I'd guess... They also tolerated the Suez canal. Of course let's remember that map filling colonialism is very much a result of the FPW, so instead of actually conquering land, Napoléon might just try to force...

Stupid question, actual silk aside, isn't that OTL? Wasn't there already a very active trade network in the Western Sahara of Salt against gold and slaves?

You'd need areas with catholic minorities, as this was the core of his colonial politic. He'd probably go in the Levant, I'm not sure they have the full capacity to take the whole of Vietnam though, because of disease if anything else. Probably more resources put in Japan too?

You still have Cambodia, Siam, Hainan, Korea and bits of Malaysia (not sure on latter)

There were fears in Indochinese establishment at the end of the XIXth century. It reached a peak during the Mayréna affair where an adventurer carved a kingdom in the highlands of Indochina. There were fears that a Prusso-Siamese alliance was trying to influence the tribes to weaken Indochina...

Don't think they'd risk it, no? It's twenty years after the ACW, not sure about the state of the US army... It'd be interesting to see what the Brits do

Eiffel was quite popular as I recall. Plus, even if he's sick, you can have Lesseps as a figurehead?

The French made a first big attempt at building a canal in Panama in the 1880's It didn't work because Lesseps insisted on doing a "flat" canal like in Suez rather than one with locks, which would have better suited the terrain. To be fair, he was no engineer and had been told in Suez that a...

Interesting you mention Morocco as it's Lyautey's turf. One thing of his I remember reading is that France could get new, fresher blood through colonisations after 1870. Now you can read this in 3 ways: Like you did, with French settlers able to have bigger families in New lands As an incentive...

For Indochina it was floated by the English opposed it