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yes Oh, that's embarrassing. A bad miss.

I'm going to be stereotypical and ask for a romantic poet whose family started him on the legitimist side but who always had a social sensibility and who grew to become a republican, that also was involved in government. Alphonse de Lamartine. What, who were you expecting? :evilsmile: And to...

Ah, I get to see the need for choo-choos giving rise to a timid attempt at getting some representation in Prussia! Excellent! Did your recent trip help? I think I remember seeing references to Friedrich Wilhelm loathing losses of rioters' lives somewhere around the Brandenburger Tor.

Great new addition! And how is the teaching life treating you? Got any troisièmes to whom you must remember not to verge into not-OTL results?

The whole thing is about to get lower without the statues on top.

You bastard. I take it all back.

H2G2 being TTL version of Wikipedia? Even the little details are perfect.

With a title like this, how can you expect me not to hum along?

Well, they lost that battle in 1302. By 1306, they had won decisively at Zierikzee in 1304 and crushed the Flemish at Mons-en-Pévèle in 1305 and Flanders was back under French overlordship. So I'd say no, since the culture clash was already there, the Flemish didn't like the French and they...

I will end you.

Not really: the Manzanares acted as much as a barrier to extension as a lifeline and it took Carlos III's effort to really bring Madrid into it own, by improving public health, opening large streets and squares, etc.

Napoléon literally had portable semaphores in his baggage.

Is anything ever McClellan's responsibility with you? Come on, name five things he did wrong on which he should shoulder part or the entirety of the blame and which can't be excused on his subordinates.

It's Markus Wolf, leader of the foreign department of the Stasi.

No, but that's a common misconception.

Lieberman. On both tickets!

Passed away last year.

You're taking a dead teenager to task? Classy.

Joseph Dupuis was actually British as hinted by several things, such as the different transliteration of the name of the famed Algerian rebel, or the fact that he is assisted by 'Her Majesty's soldiers'. There is a breakdown of the European sphere of influence (with map!) on the previous page.

Nowadays, sure, but the late nineteenth century had several attempts at forming a common Federation, ultimately foundering in 1901. Change that, you have what the OP is asking for.