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  1. JonasResende

    Effects of the Expulsion of the Huguenots on the French Economy

    Louis XIV expelled the Huguenots from France with the 1685 Edict of Fontainebleau (also known as the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes). As a result, you had many Huguenots making their way to England, Holland, the Palatinate (where the Neuburg succession would soon force them to Catholicize...
  2. JonasResende

    WI: Josephine Pregnant by Lazare Hoche?

    As this extract from the paper Josephine Beheaded: So...what if Lazare Hoche had knocked up Josephine. And, for sanity's sake, let's assume that he's certain he's the father (and that Hoche missed his wedding to his OTL wife). How does this affect things?
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    PC: Prince Frederick's Plan for Henry, Duke of Cumberland = No ARW?

    According to Tim Venning, Frederick, Prince of Wales had a plan to create his third son, Henry, "duke of Virginia". More than that, Poor Fred apparently also intended to send his son to the West Indies as a sort of viceroy of the West Indies+Georgia, Carolina etc. Fred's whole idea was to...
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    How to Butterfly/Squash Prussian Militarism?

    Voltaire famously commented that "all states have an army, the Prussian army has a state". After the Soldier-King Friedrich Wilhelm I Prussia tended to follow a strong military policy (thanks, no doubt to Frederick the Great). But Fritz was mocked as "effeminate" by his father for his unmanly...
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    WI: Realistic Courlander Overseas Empire?

    OTL Courland had an overseas empire in the Caribbean and Senegal, but by the 1660s it was sort of dead in the water, and when Jakob I died in 1682, his son basically ended all attempts at colonization IIRC. In alt-history I've seen two alternate Courlands colonize places like New Zealand or the...
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    Best-Case Scenario for the Balkans Post-Congress of Vienna?

    What it says on the tin. Obviously there will be Austrian versus Russian spheres in the Balkans - IIRC Alexander I and Metternich were already in negotiations about a "divide up" at Vienna - but that's a pretty "vague" scenario, since most of the Balkans fells either one way or the other OTL...
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    Marriages for French Royals in Case of No Revolution?

    Let's assume that Louis XVI has a show of backbone and the French Revolution is put down very firmly (this is probably near-ASB but lets suspend disbelief for that). The revolution ends up dying with a whimper and a bunch of people who lost their heads OTL DON'T. What I'm asking about is...
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    WI: Henry Cromwell "Succeeds" Oliver?

    So, Queen Dick Richard Cromwell was deposed shortly after his dad died, by the army. But what if Oliver had designated his next son, Henry (who, if his wiki is to be believed, had a far better opinion in parliament and the army) as "successor". Or better yet, Dick dies before Oliver (say in the...
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    Grooms for the Daughters of Leopold I and Eleonore Magdalene?

    OTL Leopold had a fair few daughters by his third wife, but only ONE (Maria Anna) married. Maria Elisabeth was proposed for the duc de Bourgogne (father of Louis XV), but that fell through. Maria Anna was proposed for and married her cousin, the king of Portugal Maria Theresia then Maria...
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    Wife for a Surviving Son of Emperor Joseph I?

    Holy Roman Emperor Joseph I had only one son, Leopold Joseph (born and died in 1700). If LJ had lived, the entire hjstory of the 18th century would've been different, since as NOT-LAST-HABSBURG male standing, Joseph dying wouldn't be used as an excuse to drop Carlos III/Karl VI. Even if LJ IS...
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    WI: Wladyslaw IV of Poland Marries Eleonora of Brandenburg

    OTL, one of Wladyslaw IV's several marriage plans that fell through was to Eleonora of Brandenburg (OTL Queen of Sweden, mother of Queen Kristina). He/Poland was courting her to ease relations with Prussia (IIRC), when Gustaf Adolf swooped in and "carried her off". Her brother was opposed to...
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    WI: Felipe III Remarries to Eleonora de Medici?

    Hi all, Sorry for the long radio silence. RL got in the way this last year. Finished my masters (successfully) - yay - moved, and am now currently one of the great unemployed - aw - but hopefully I'll be around more. Inspired by a convo I had with @Vitruvius a while back, what if Felipe III...
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    WI: Olympic Games from 1796?

    Came across an interesting wikipedia article where the Directory organized a series of athletics games at the Champ de Mars in 1796, 1797 and 1798. 1796 and 97's were pretty standard. Foot races, chariot races. And all participants were French. There's an opening and closing ceremony etc. Then...
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    WI: Madame de Maintenon Goes To Portugal?

    Excuse the anachronism in the title, however I figured more people would recognize the name Madame de Maintenon than Madame Scarron or Françoise d'Aubigne. Anyhow, I was reading over one of my old threads, where Athénaïs de Mortemarte (OTL marquise de Montespan) marries her original intended...
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    If Napoléon Had Won Waterloo Would Everything Really Have Been So Awesome?

    I came across an article entitled "Why we'd be better off if Napoléon never lost at Waterloo". And I can't help but wonder if the last paragraph owes something to hindsight (I'm not saying that what the Holy Alliance or anybody did was right, but I am wondering if it isn't perhaps giving...
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    WI/AHC: Alternate Africa/Alkebu-Lan

    After reading through this post I've been wondering if it's possible (rephrase that, there are enough TLs and PODs for Malinese, Ethiopian, Egyptian and Kongolese (even Draka) Empires in Africa that I'm sure it is) for Africa to end up divided differently. Admittedly, while Cyon/Robinson's...
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    WI: Marie Thérèse de France, Madame Royal, Has a Daughter?

    The only surviving child of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette died with no surviving children. But what if she'd had a daughter of her own? Born relatively in the early 1800s (so as to make her too young to marry the duc de Berri and too old for the OTL comte de Chambord)?
  18. JonasResende

    WI: Contagion Theory "Discovered" Earlier

    So, @SeaCambrian posted this as a DBWI some months ago (bold emphases mine where I adjusted the original post), and I've found myself thinking about the possible effects of Von Plenciz's book/theory gaining wider prominence. How would this affect how medicine develops? What significant changes...
  19. JonasResende

    PC: Earliest Electricity/Telephones?

    This a random thought bunny that popped into my head earlier after I sat without power for 6 hours, it came on for less time than it took to boil a kettle and the kicked off for another 3 hour stretch. What is the EARLIEST (I assume it won't be before thr 1750s) that electricity/telephones...
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    WI: Irina Mikhailovna Weds Prince Valdemar of Schleswig

    Valdi was the son of Christian IV and Kristin Munck. He went to Russia to wed Irina Mikhailovna, but refused when he found out converting to Orthdoxy was part of the deal. He wound up in a Russian prison for a while (3 years IIRC). When Valdi went back to Denmark and his dad died, he and...
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