AHC: French Baden

No restrictions? Then you can take my Chaos TL: In the 17th century, French king Francois IV (who's also HREmperor Franz III) annexes Baden, against all customs and everyone else's wishes. Leading to the anti-French War.
 
France also annexes Baden in Direwolf22's TL "Disaster at Leuthen" after several years of occupation. But generally I find this idea to be just weird: More German-speakers and they are across the Rhine no less... That just spells trouble.
 
Not beyond possibility for Napoleon?

(You didn't specify any minimum length of time for which France actually manages to keep the place..)
 
France also annexes Baden in Direwolf22's TL "Disaster at Leuthen" after several years of occupation. But generally I find this idea to be just weird: More German-speakers and they are across the Rhine no less... That just spells trouble.
Why? Switzerland had francophone, germanophone and italophone. Then again France has a good record in integrating the popullation. Why it is so troublesome for a country to own "german" territory?
 
Have Louis XIV be far more successful in his wars, so that he begins to annex deeper into the HRE? Very difficult, as there'd be so many coalitions against him, but not entirely impossible.
 

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He was after the Palatinate though, rather than Baden.

Though ironically enough the House of Orleans once again married a German princess who would turn out to be a potential heiress. Margravine Auguste Johanna of Baden-Baden, wife of the Louis, Duke of Orleans, was the only Louis William's children to produce children of her own. So potentially the French could make the same argument again in the late 18th century that Louis XIV made a century earlier withe Palatinate. Of course this ignores the Protestant branch of Baden-Durlach. And we all know how the war of the Nine Years War turned out when the French tried for the Palatinate. Still its the only obvious pre-revolutionary POD I can think of. It would be interesting to think of a German based house of Orleans in the upper Rhine though I doubt the butterflies would let it all come together.
 
True, but Louis might be willing to compromise and 'only' take Baden, perhaps with future plans to attack the Palatinate still.

How is that a compromise? It is on the wrong side of the Rhine, which means that it would be not only less interesting to Louis, but also arguably less desirable for the German states.
 
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