A few challenges for you: Frallemange, Frespange and Fritalie.

Krall

Banned
You may or may not have heard of Frangleterre, the idea of France and Britain uniting into one country, however, I was wondering today, what about Frallemange? France and Germany unifying? How about Fritalie? Or Frespange for that matter?

Your challenge is to choose one of these ideas and make French-German/Italian/Spanish unification possible before 1950 and without going ASB.

Bonus points if you involve other, smaller countries in the union to make it look cooler, more bonus points if you manage to make France unify with two or all of the three other countries indicated.

You can have France take over the other country, and vice versa, but they must actually annex all/most of of the other nation, and ALL of France must be involved, none of this 'Vichy France' stuff.

Minus points for mentioning the EU being successful, the EU failing is fine.

Any POD between, say, 1200 and 1950.
 
Fraspaña

Following Napolean's invasion of Spain and the istallation of his brother Joeseph on the throne, British parlimentary bull-headedness keeps their forces in Portugal and forbids Wellesley crossing the border taking the battle to the French. The Royal Navy still blockades French ports, but no one in government is confident in the Sepoy-General's abilities to fight Europeans. Nor are they willing to spend British gold and blood to defend the Spaniards, an untrustworthy ally at best. Sir Arthur seethes at the restrictions, but has no choice but to sit out the war in the hills surrounding Porto.

The ensuing years sees a defenisive build up in Portugal, but no fighting between the Red- and Blue-Coats in Iberia (though the Spaniards still give les Armées lots of trouble). The Peninsular Wars simply do not happen.

Napoleon still launches his disasterous campaign to the East, only this time fails to survive the route and retreat. His surviving Marshalls gather and realize that if any of them attempts to seize the throne, they will all fall to civil war, while still being threatened by the Prussians, Austrians and Russians. Instead, they agree to annoint Joséphine de Beauharnais as Empress and Head of State, with a marriage to King Joeseph to cement the claim to the throne. The Marshalls divvy up the Empire's gains amongst themselves, but the war comes to an end with the death of their leader.
  • Joséphine de Beauharnais - French Empress (de jure ruler)
  • Joeseph Buonaparte - King of Spain
  • Marshal Ney - First Consul of France (de facto ruler)
  • Marshal Soult - King of Galicia
  • Marshal Murat - King of Naples
  • Marshal Eugene - King of Italy
  • Marshal Marmont - King of Illyria
  • Marshal Bernadotte - King of Saxony
  • Marshal Daout - Protector of the Upper Rhine Confederacy
  • Marshal Jerome - Protector of the Lower Rhine-Westphalia Confederacy
  • Marshal St. Cyr - Mediator of the Swiss Confederation
  • Marshall Louis - King of Holland
By the 1860's all of the central European kingdoms had pulled away from the French Empire, becoming increasingly independent from each other and maintaining their own royal families. The union of France and Spain under the marriage of the Bonapartes remained however, helped by the Pope's blessing in 1815 on the Most Catholic Empire that quelled much of the Spanish discontent (also by the draw-down of the rapacious French troops from Spanish soil).
 
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Thande

Donor
Fraspaña is easy, you just need a decisive Bourbon victory in the War of the Spanish Succession.

Fritaly is possible either from France doing better in the Italian Wars of the 16th century and then, much later, a patchwork of French-allied Italian puppets being directly incorporated into France by an alt-French Revolution (like Lorraine , Avignon and Bouille in OTL) ; OR much later by Napoleon winning the war in Russia and he or his successors then deciding to incorporate the Kingdom of Italy into uber-France.

Frallemagne is most difficult of these. Possibilities might be a romantic 'Charlemagne' movement in the 19th century (a 19th century without the French Revolutionary & Napoleonic Wars, so less Franco-German enmity) ; Austria being hulled by the Ottomans in the late 17th century and the rest of the German states cleaving to France, eventually to full political union ; or France and Germany establishing a postwar political union in the 20th century, although that would probably happen after 1950 so is not eligible here.
 
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