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:confused:If the occasion cropped up, between 1700 and 1800, that the people of main provinces of the Austrian Netherlands (or Belgium or Southern Netherlands, whichever you prefer) would be given a say as to which country they wanted to join, what would they choose?

Assuming that full independence was not acceptable nor was staying under the Habsburgs, they had to join someone.

What would be the will of the people?

Flanders - Dutch speaking Catholics - Would they prefer their co-linguists in the Netherlands or co-religionists in France?
Walloonia - French dialect - Catholics - I don't see anything but France in this one.
Luxembourg - Lexembourgish speaking Catholics - The Wittelsbach Palatinate territories of Berg and Julich?
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