The seventeenth century is full of weird territory swapping schemes, but one of the little known ones was a plan by the French to buy the Mediterranean island of Corsica from Genoa, thwarted apparently by the death of Louis XV. This is a good one just for its sheer pointlessness.
Is this an inconsequential what if or could something have actually come from this?
Is this an inconsequential what if or could something have actually come from this?