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I was thinking and I'm sure whether I have posted about if before, about a Lutheran Lorraine, in OTL Montbéliard was the French speaking Lutheran area, what effect would it have if medium larger territorium as the Duchy of Lorraine converted or are it even possible in OTL several Luteran states survived as enclaves in Swabia, but would Lorraines position make it to sensible for Spanish or French invasions to survive?

If it survived would we see a wide spread of Lutheranism among the French, in OTL the different Protestant denominatian had some trouble jumping over the languages lines, while Calvinism had some succes it seem mostly to have spread to France from Calvins Geneva and Zwingli to the Rhineland to Netherlands , while most non-German Lutheran area was closely integrated into German trade network.

In OTL we Calvinism having mosty succes in South France, would Lutheranism be more succesful in the north, leading to a stronger through split Protestant position in France? Maybe leading to a more chaotic French War of Religion?
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