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Its fairly well known that had France grown in population similarly to the rest of Europe during the nineteenth century; they would very well have 100 to 150 million people inside the 1789 borders.
Many blame the revolutionary war; Napoleon abandoning salic law; the lack of industrialization in France post Nappy. But what do you think is the real and most plausible answer behind this demographic collapse and how do we avoid it?
I would love to see a massive, extremely densely population France go toe to toe with the British Empire at time; all that historical animosity in a modern war. Instead we got a weak France becoming the junior partner in the War against the up and coming Germans. I would like to change that.
Demography is destiny and hopefully a change in history can influence demography greatly.