Frankfurt proposals accepted what does the rest of Europe look like

Say all the Coalition members and Napoleon accept the Frankfurt proposals

What would the rest of Europe's borders look like to balance out France

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Well France is more secure for one. More of a industrial power secondly, and damn Prussia born got nerfed.
 
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IMHO the problem remains Emperor Napoleon, sure he was in retreat on many fronts and had suffered a heavy defeat in the Battle of Nations (Leipzig), but character-wise this would have meant given up more than he had. I'm sure some French now think, why didn't he, well IMHO his OTL last 100 days might be telling here. And then for the elephant in the room here, I'm pretty sure Metternich would have ended up being cursed by a number of Germans once the age of Nationalism hits (some might in hindsight even deem him a traitor, in that period that IMHO could be real possibility), for allowing major German towns like Cologne, Mainz and Trier, all former Prince Electorates of the HRE, and an Imperial coronation site of the HRE like Aachen in French hands. IMHO that's much more dangerous than OTL French (owned) Alsace ever was.
Then there also is the issue of the fate of Flemish and other Dutch (as in language group) speaking groups of modern day Belgium had they remained a part of the French Empire ITTL. OTOH groups like the Germans and the Flemish, which remain under French control ITTL might end up causing problems for France in the future. That might spark a new conflict between the German states united under Austro-Prussian leadership to support German insurgences in TTL France and aiding them for the 'liberation' of Mainz, Cologne (Köln), Trier and Aachen (Aix-la-chapelle).
IMHO such a future conflict would be a real possibility and given what's contested ITTL the stakes will be higher than IOTL. The Netherlands will be a bit of wild card, that might depend whether they align with France or Prussia, and in case of the latter unrest TTL Dutch speaking areas of TTL France might influence that even further.
 
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Things that will not change:

The convening of TTL Congress of Vienna

The creation of a German Confederation with a common defense policy specifically geared toward France.

Russian Poland

Disunited Italy

The Latin American Wars of Independence.

Everything else is anyone's ball game.
 
Would an Italian Confederation with Austria as its leader be likely ?

I'd say no. The German Confederation had legitimacy in the eyes of the Conservative order as a successor to the HRE and was a balanced creation between the two emerging factions with the coalition as to who'd gather the most influence in the new order. An Italian Confederation rewards Austria far too much without compensating the other members.
 
*Germany still unites if only out of animosity for French invasion with Prussia and Austria duking it out for leadership (Bavaria likely ends up a compromise country to rule it or a possibly the site of its capital).

*Italy unites but for reasons as noted above

*Austria may become the visible vanguard against France in Continental Europe

*Sweden still comes under the House of Bernadotte and is friendly to France but not an ally

*Napoleon is likely to try again in a few years after licking his wounds and may succeed in bringing the Netherlands, Catalonia, and northern Italy into the French domain permanently.
 
This would make the question of commerce and traffic along the Rhine a bit messy. You'll likely see some sort of Rhine-centred economic union.
 
Napoleon deciding not to go to war anymore seems unlikely without a good secondary reason, though if he wanted to focus on heirs and building his family that might work.
Weren't the bulk of his wars, reactions to the actions or attacks by the various coalitions as opposed to him seeking to control Europe
 
Napoleon deciding not to go to war anymore seems unlikely without a good secondary reason, though if he wanted to focus on heirs and building his family that might work.

His Marshals might very well point out that France is economically and demographically exhausted and needs a few years of rest and training in the classes if he wants to have an army capable of doing much. Considering the declining state of his health (granted, he'd do better than IOTL), put things off for half a decade or so and he could easily settle into a more mellow attitude
 
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*Napoleon is likely to try again in a few years after licking his wounds and may succeed in bringing the Netherlands, Catalonia, and northern Italy into the French domain permanently.
I really doubt that, the Coalition magnanimous let him keep this France, but I'm pretty sure they would also install a defensive alliance, just in case Napoleon get's some crazy ideas. Heck OTL in 1815 the Anglo-Prusso-Belgo-Dutch army and the respective Russian and Austrian (including minor German states)armies, those three army groups individually were larger than the army of France. Furthermore by this point Napoleon slowly started to lose a number of his brilliant generals, including some of them by defection, also the armies from former French forced vassal states or even occupied probably did learn a thing or two from their French overlords/occupiers (the Netherlands started out as a vassal state, but later was forcibly annexed by the French Empire, that was the moment when all the substantial goodwill towards France vanished overnight).
Well from this point onwards Napoleon is watched very closely and utterly distrusted, by accepting this terms they also placed any potential German ally in a very difficult position, would by this point their population still accept it, and moreover are they willing the fight against Austria, Prussia and the rest the German Confederation.

Sure maybe Napoleon will try, but by this point the odds were stacked against him, and like the most recent Grand wars before this effort, I'm sure he fail in the end, undoubted after a string of in the end Pyrrhic victories.
 
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Sure maybe Napoleon will try, but by this point the odds were stacked against him, and like the most recent Grand wars before this effort, I'm sure he fail in the end, undoubted after a string of in the end Pyrrhic victories.

I figure that's one reason his opponents were called the Sixth Coalition.
 
Even if Napoléon wanted to fight more wars, his supply of young healthy men was running low by 1814. His armies in the 1813 campaigns included a lot of inexperienced teenage recruits. Without dependent states to supply soldiers, his manpower advantage is gone. France is exhausted by this point.
 
Actually, upon further investigation I realized that the Kingdom of Italy was still intact an univaded in 1813. If Nappy makes peace with the Coalition under the Frankfurt Proposal, is there a chance it stays intact? Perhaps not with Napoleon as King
 
Eugène de Beauharnais, now is your turn to shine.

Perhaps. Off the top of my head though, I'd have to say the final situation in Italy is going to depend on re-establishing the political balance (as per usual) by dividing influence between the north and south. So long as Murat is on the throne of Naples, I can't see the Coalition accepting Napoleon's stepson on an Italian throne. In these circumstances, he could have to pick and choose; though Austria is probably more inclined to get a friendly candidate in the North and sell the Bourbons up the creek in its initial offering, her allies lean more towards restoring the status quo in southern Italy.
 
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