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After browsing on wikipedia (while I should have been doing something else, I hope my boss doesn't read this forum) I noticed that there where a couple of scenarios for the Netherlands after the Napoleonic wars.
1. just the Netherlands
2. the Netherlands including the southern Netherlands (Belgium and Luxembourg)
3. the Netherlands including the southern Netherlands and the Rhineland
4. this one:

If the Southern Netherlands would stay (partially) French, the Northern Netherlands should be extended to the Nete River or probably the whole of Flanders. In this scenario also portions of Germany would become Dutch. Then the border would be the line Mechelen-Maastricht-Jülich-Cologne-Düsseldorf where it ends at the river Rhine.

So what if they used this plan? The Netherlands probably would have been more stable without the Walloons, so no Belgian revolution. I think that most German speaking parts could be Dutchafied, a most of it speaks a German dialect that resembles Dutch.

The problem in this scenario is that Prussia would lose lands it gained OTL. They must be compensated somehow. The question is how. Would they gain parts of Belgium? Liege and Luxembourg would seam most likely.

Another problem is that France gaininga large part of Belgium would be a lot stronger, something that the other countries wated to avoid. So would France lose other parts of France if they gain part of Belgium? What parts would they be? I was thinking of Lorrain, but maybe there are other parts.

So any comments?
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