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On April 14th 1912, the RMS titanic sank on it's maiden voyage. Down with it, went 3 prominent opponents of the creation of the US Federal Reserve System, Isador Strauss, Ben Guggenheim, and John Astor, but what if they survived and the US Federal Reserve system never was created? Now I...

By 1761 France had already lost the colonial war, but in the continent its allies still had the advantage, so what if they won? The PODs are: 1. French victory at Villinghausen: The french actually had a good chance of decisively winning this battle, had Soubise launch a full scale offensive at...

Louis XVII was the son of King Louis XVI and Marie Antionette. Despite his title, he never really was king, as after his father was executed, he was imprisoned, and later die of an illness at age 10. There would be various people who claimed to be Louis XVII, such as Karl Wilhelm Naundorff and...

On 1186, after learning that Ida, Countess of Boulogne is widowed twice, Henry II would want his youngest son to marry Ida, Countess of Boulogne in order to give England closer ties with the county of Boulogne, the marriage would have angered the King of France, Philip II but the King of France...

let's imagine that louis xiv becomes ill after the last treaty of nijmegen between sweden and the dutch republic and dies at the end of 1679

The french had won pretty much every engagement before Mansourah, let's say that Robert of Artois decides to wait for Louis after defeating and killing Fakhr ad-din, instead of pursuing Baibars and being defeated, killed, and losing almost his entire force inside the city. Then they start to lay...

Une ville français en Chine – Broadcast by Antenne 2, 31 December 1996 Good morning and hello to everyone watching. As France prepares for yet another new year, about 6 and half million of us are preparing not only for a new year, but for a new, non-French future. These 6.5 million Frenchmen...

Une ville français en Chine – Broadcast by Antenne 2, 31 December 1996 Good morning and hello to everyone watching. As France prepares for yet another new year, about 6 and half million of us are preparing not only for a new year, but for a future apart from France. These 6.5 million Frenchmen...

As the tin says, what if Maximilian Habsburg died in 1478 shortly after the birth of his son Philip? Obviously, Mary of Burgundy is going to remarry asap since she needs a powerful husband to help defend Burgundy from France but to whom? All of Edward IV’s brothers are married and his Woodville...

Greetings, albeit being a longtime lurker on this forum, this is my first post. I hope i can stay as a active member for a long time. Anyways, lets say that Castile or Aragon manage to conquer Gascony or Languedoc on the XV or XVI century or inherit them, although probably this requires an...

LA GASTONNADE ___________________________________________ What if Gaston d'Orléans become King of France ? “ Jamais règne ne fut plus doux, plus tranquille, ni plus heureux que l'a été le sien ; et, en vérité, de semblables princes devraient naître un peu plus souvent, ou ne point mourir...

Temporarily putting potential butterflies aside (though I doubt this PoD is going to change too much before 1870), I’ve recently been wondering what would happen if the Papal States still controlled Avignon and the Comtat Venaissin when the Italians capture Rome. Let’s suppose that, at the...

I came across this reply in a Belgian Luxembourg thread; I don't know whether it is realistic or not but lets assume it occurs. Lets say that the Prince Imperial is never born so Plon-Plon succeeds him as his next closest male relative and enacts more liberal reforms--without the Paris Commune...

Can the Alemanni, Lombards or Saxons replace the Franks migrating into Gaul and establish their kingdom as powerful as the franks in OTL ? And will it be a new version of France in ITL or the Gallo-Roman is assimilated by the germanic tribe ? How will it affect history of Europe in general ...

As a self-admitted Francophile I am always perturbed by the sort of French bashing present in alternate history scenarios as well as Germany wanks. However, today I want to ask how small and weak France could realistically get after losing WWI. France was also demographically stagnant during...

What would have happened if the plot to kill then President of France Charles de Gaulle described in Fredrick Forsyth's 1971 political thriller The Day of The Jackal not actually occurred but also succeeded? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Jackal In 1962 France was suffering from...

The premise of this is that Louis Napoléon doesn't get into any position of power. Maybe he has an accident or never gets out of Ham. Whatever the reason, what sort of affects could this have on France and the wider world? Paris may well be different without his sponsorship of Haussmann and the...

The consensus of what would occur if the UK didn't enter the Great War is that France and Russia would get pummelled. Lets say, however, that near-ASB levels of luck befall the French and Russian war effort and victory is secured in 1915. I'd imagine such a scenario would involve France not...

I have a new map project in mind where an event similar to the House Grey Memorandum leads to an end to WWI with a return to the status quo in the west (except for a chunk of Alsace-Lorraine being ceded to France) while Germany disarms the High Seas Fleet but keeps its gains from the treaty of...

The Fools Who Dream An Account of mid-18th Century Europe at War. The Seven Years’ War, French and Indian War, Third Silesian War, etc., whatever you want to call it, was undoubtedly a pivotal moment in history. It’s no wonder that it is (relatively) so often the subject of alt-history works...