AHC: Kingdom of Sardinia develops French national consciousness and becomes part of France

Kingdom of Sardinia as in this map,

Parts of it did become French in OTL (Savoy and Nice), but others became Italian (Lombardy, Piedmont, island of Sardinia).

My question is, with a PoD after the end of the Napoleonic Wars (1815), could the entirety of the Kingdom of Sardinia voluntarily develop a French national consciousness rather than an Italian one, and eventually merge into France?

If so, would Italy be united under the leadership of a different state (e.g. the Two Sicilies)?
 
Kingdom of Sardinia as in this map,

Parts of it did become French in OTL (Savoy and Nice), but others became Italian (Lombardy, Piedmont, island of Sardinia).

My question is, with a PoD after the end of the Napoleonic Wars (1815), could the entirety of the Kingdom of Sardinia voluntarily develop a French national consciousness rather than an Italian one, and eventually merge into France?

If so, would Italy be united under the leadership of a different state (e.g. the Two Sicilies)?

No.

The common folk and intelligensia both spoke Italian, were only breifly deprived of sovergeinty, and their experience with French rule has been mostly one of forced conscription, requistion of supplies, and the general disruption to daily life created by continent wide total war. They will have no love of Paris's direct governance
 
No.

The common folk and intelligensia both spoke Italian, were only breifly deprived of sovergeinty, and their experience with French rule has been mostly one of forced conscription, requistion of supplies, and the general disruption to daily life created by continent wide total war. They will have no love of Paris's direct governance

They didn't actually speak Italian then, but various Romance dialects : Franco-Provençal, Piedmontese, Ligurian, Sardinian...
 
You'd need France to annex Kingdom of Sardinia. Only reason Savoy and Nice are part of France is because Sardinia give it to them in exchange for help against Austria
 
They didn't actually speak Italian then, but various Romance dialects : Franco-Provençal, Piedmontese, Ligurian, Sardinian...

Derp... you're absolutely right. I can't believe I brain farted on that fact considering I just pointed out the lingustic diversity of the penninsula in another thread recently. Though, those dialects are at least all mutually intelligable, and the intelligencia would be speaking Floretine, though French was also a common enough language among the upper class. Hardly the Vulgate of anybody though.
 
Not with that POD.
In a Napleonic victory it is possible that at least part of Piemonte could have been integrated into France, but it would have been very difficult and probably bloody. With much earlier pods such as a Savoyard collapse in the War of Spanish Succession or a total French victory in the Italian wars Frenchifying Piesmont and maybe part of Liguria is entirely possible, while Lombardy seems much more difficult. It would also be very difficult, if not impossible, to exclude those areas from the Italian national consciousness, if that awakes in the rest of Italy.
 
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After the Napoleonic Wars? Not gonna happen. Even if they did take Piedmont, it would be a long and tedious process to integrate the state into France.

If you really want a French Piedmont, your best best is France winning the Italian Wars back in the 1500s, like how they did in Now Blooms the Tudor Rose. Well, they didn't exactly win, but they did have control of Piedmont.
 
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