AHC: Habsburg France

Wolfpaw

Banned
All on the tin, folks. With a POD of whenever you would like, have the Habsburg dynasty assume the Crown of France.
 
I'd say the main obstacle to this is the application of Salic Law, i.e. nobody except a Capetian is allowed to acceed.

The POD I usually suggest for ditching it is a Plantagenet victory in the Hundred Years' War. A scenario I just came up with involves Napoleon not losing everything, but surviving on the throne long enough to secure the succession of a daughter (OTL's Napoleon II not being born). All she needs to do is marry someone from Austria and have a son who succeeds.

In fact, this might work better if we butterfly away Napoleon himself marrying into the Habsburgs.
 
The Lorenians are the second line in throne after the Bourbons which absorbed the Habsburgs and vice versa, so I think it is possible if all of the legitemate Bourbons and Orleans are evicted from France completely after the French revolution...I think the Lorenians/Habsburgs will do everything to prevent the return of the Capets
 
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