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  1. Could Germany and France reconcile if Alsace-Lorraine remains French?

    You might see one party stumbling into a war on the other's side due to "events" sooner than seeing an actual Franco-German Alliance. (You might, for instance, see the Boer War and Fashoda coinciding and pitting France and Germany against Britain, together by accident rather than by intent...
  2. Look to the West Volume IX: The Electric Circus

    So this is how World War III starts - with the Czechs and Bohemian Germans rising up together against Germany to become part of *Austria-Hungary. If that doesn't encompass how unique LTTW is, nothing will. And how appropriate it is that something so often foreshadowed as the demise of the German...
  3. Look to the West Volume IX: The Electric Circus

    Thank you! A cameo would be very much appreciated.
  4. Look to the West Volume IX: The Electric Circus

    It's a reference to those recent 'Bad Translations' videos of the World Wars (among others) on YouTube, isn't it? The stuff like him (or 'Him', if you prefer) being referred to as 'he' and being ambiguously born in Spain first tipped me off (and the 'youngest son of the Societist Revolution'...
  5. Look to the West Volume IX: The Electric Circus

    I mean, I'm Dutch - for us Philip II of Spain has long been the 'big bad' of the Dutch Revolt. But I know he's called "Philip the Prudent" in Spain, and I don't think there's anyone here who's bothered by that fact.
  6. Frankie Goes to the Hofburg, or Napoléon II, Regent of Austria?

    Bit of a late comment here, but it would seem a bit strange for the French monarchy to start meddling with the succession right after the restoration of the legitimate line against all odds (and in the context of an international situation where the Carlists, who had rather less of a leg to...
  7. Look to the West Volume IX: The Electric Circus

    Agreed. I often feel like I am learning just as much about (OTL) finance, film making, computer technology, chemistry and some of the other issues that have been debated in this and recent volumes through the TTL descriptions and the footnotes as I am about the geopolitical situation in the...
  8. Cinco de Mayo

    True, yes. Makes me wonder whether the soil for a revolution would be far more fertile ITTL than it was IOTL with Queen Wilhelmina rebuilding the popularity of the monarchy - Sophie would probably restore it a bit too, but whether this Willem V, even as a constitutional king who doesn't have as...
  9. Cinco de Mayo

    Yes, indeed. I'd actually forgotten that Sophie would of course still be alive in the 1880s, so it's quite probable that she would be her nephew Alexander's direct heir as she was the undisputed heiress presumptive IOTL during the 1890s despite the controversy that later arose about the...
  10. Cinco de Mayo

    He would legally be the natural heir, yes, although as the article states there were efforts to disinherit him to avoid a personal union with Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach and seek out a more junior member of the family (like his brother Bernhard, who IOTL died young, or his first cousin Heinrich of...
  11. Cinco de Mayo

    I have been reading this thread for the first time and thus far it's quite creative and interesting. I really applaud your efforts to try to find butterflies where you can find them and avoid steering history too much in the direction you want to go in. However, and if this (on page 53) has...
  12. Frankie Goes to the Hofburg, or Napoléon II, Regent of Austria?

    Ah, I see. That makes sense, and fits with his dramatic proclamations of refusing to abdicate after initially being invited to take the throne because of his willingness to be a more explicitly constitutional monarch.
  13. Frankie Goes to the Hofburg, or Napoléon II, Regent of Austria?

    This is (still) a fascinating timeline, and I'm particularly following the events in France with interest. One question, though - you keep referring to the grandson of Louis Philippe as the Dauphin. Wasn't the heir to the throne called the Prince Royal under the July Monarchy?
  14. Frankie Goes to the Hofburg, or Napoléon II, Regent of Austria?

    This is a fascinating premise, although I would agree that it's important not to end up overplaying the changes that one man could bring - even when that man is the Duke of Reichstadt. Also, regarding how France under Charles X (if he were still king) might take to the Duke's position in...
  15. Look to the West Volume IX: The Electric Circus

    It's great to see this return and see the tantalizing hints of what awaits us in this volume. It's interesting that, judging from the flags above and its role as one of the main (and the most-focused on) belligerent in the previous volume, and arguably its role in/outside of the Pandoric War as...
  16. Look to the West Volume VIII: The Bear and the Basilisk

    Very well done (although everyone basically getting a piece of East Prussia was slightly surprising). Look To The West is probably the greatest timeline I have ever read, and its attention to detail remains astounding. An amazing accomplishment, Thande. The fact that your chosen career is in...
  17. Look to the West Volume VIII: The Bear and the Basilisk

    So, looking at that map and comparing it to the aforementioned worldwide 1922 map, I'm guessing that Spain and Navarre are the real French puppets, whereas the other nations shown in light blue are merely in the French sphere/allied with France? Which makes for an interesting contrast with...
  18. Look to the West Volume VIII: The Bear and the Basilisk

    I suppose that's the final piece of the puzzle of how the German monarchy fell.
  19. Look to the West Volume VIII: The Bear and the Basilisk

    You misspelled Vlaanderen. Also, as a native Dutch-speaker, it strikes me as strange that the term 'Mönster' would become common in this timeline's Dutch, given how rare ö's are in general. And I keep forgetting that the Waddeneilanden are known as the "West Frisian Islands" in English. Aside...
  20. The Sun of Rocroi TL- A better Grand Condé

    Didn't the Dutch have plans to divide the Southern Netherlands with France in case of total victory? They will not be happy with France taking it all. A French Antwerp in particular will terrify both the merchants of Amsterdam and stadtholder Frederick Henry.
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