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  1. Mistrusting Medics Might Save Monarchies-A PoD concerning French Royalty ca.17122

    Good and well,lets use the Turkish embassy prevents small pox variant then, call our ambassador Orhan Huyuk Hakim Pasha and let the heathen gain the unending gratitude of the most christian king.aThen 1715 Louis 14 dies right on schedule,Bourgogne becomes King Louis 15 and presumable starts...
  2. Mistrusting Medics Might Save Monarchies-A PoD concerning French Royalty ca.17122

    Can somebody please once and for all establish which illness was to blame so we can devise a realistic PoD and proceed to the actual Tl ? As far as I gather from the last posts,measles are the real problem to prevent and would best be avoided altogether ,whereas...
  3. Mistrusting Medics Might Save Monarchies-A PoD concerning French Royalty ca.17122

    Many thanks,dear lady-so for the sake of the argument and to proceed from the Pod.lets postulate an embassy from the Grand Turk led by some aritculate and persuasive hakim coming to Versailles just in the wake of the Grand Dauphins death ;the ambassador convinces the king and the heir to take...
  4. Mistrusting Medics Might Save Monarchies-A PoD concerning French Royalty ca.17122

    Gentlemen,I think we know now that ITTL the Bourgognes got hit by the last flickers of the 1711 smallpox epidemic-but for this PoD to work,we need a semi-plausible way to curtail it. The bit about jansenist sympathies actually fits my impression of the somewhat moralistic sentiments of the...
  5. Mistrusting Medics Might Save Monarchies-A PoD concerning French Royalty ca.17122

    Thanks,gentlemen.So,can someone confirm-measeles or smallpox?Since an early inoculator(I would suppose a jesuit doctor,not impossible apropos Bourgognes religious leanings) would probable not extend the smallpox treatment to another disease...
  6. Mistrusting Medics Might Save Monarchies-A PoD concerning French Royalty ca.17122

    Thanks,gentlemen.So,can someone confirm-measeles or smallpox?Since an early inoculator(I would suppose a jesuit doctor,not impossible apropos Bourgognes religious leanings) would probable not extend the smallpox treatment to another disease...
  7. Mistrusting Medics Might Save Monarchies-A PoD concerning French Royalty ca.17122

    After oh-so-many years silently and humbly lurking,finally a PoD bit me and wont leave me alone:to wit, what if the tragedy of 1712 had not struck the French House of Bourbon? Let us recap:after his father.the Grand...
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