AHC: Islamic Southern *France

Best and probably only change is if Muslims wins Battle of Tours. Then they can capture Southern France. But more difficult thing is that it could survive until modern day. There should be leastly surviving Islamic Iberia.
 
Make France keep Egypt.
All North Africa French => more immigration in the 1950s-60s. (In the Trente Glorieuses immigration was encouraged by the government due to labor shortages.)
2000s riots in Paris trigger an Islamic revolution in Marseille.

Or France wins the Algerian War. Algeria becomes de facto Southern France. Here's a trick.
Et voilà.
 

Zlorfik

Banned
I mean, it pretty much is :p
Ever been to Marseille?

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Anyway, Tours is a good bet. At least the mediterranean coast of france would've been fairly retainable, as it's accessible to al-andalus
 
Or France wins the Algerian War. Algeria becomes de facto Southern France. .

A French victory in the Algerian War presumably would have meant continuation of the status quo, in which the native Algerian population was almost entirely disenfranchised. France was never prepared to grant full rights of citizenship to Algerian Muslims, knowing that this would seriously change the country's demographic makeup. (As de Gaulle put it, he did not want his village of Colombey-les-Deux-Églises to become Colombey-les-Deux-Mosquées.)
 
A French victory in the Algerian War presumably would have meant continuation of the status quo, in which the native Algerian population was almost entirely disenfranchised. France was never prepared to grant full rights of citizenship to Algerian Muslims, knowing that this would seriously change the country's demographic makeup. (As de Gaulle put it, he did not want his village of Colombey-les-Deux-Églises to become Colombey-les-Deux-Mosquées.)

Nevertheless, Algeria was considered a part of Metropolitan France and could therefore be considered "Southern France".
 
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