Regarding any Fraco-Italian alliance, well there is the problem of Tunisia.
In OTL at the time Tunisa was under a strong italian influence and was considered a de facto protectorate; when France occupied it and basically eliminated italian political and ecomomical influence and privilege, people was not very amused (not counting the economic damage).
A prerequisite for any alliance (expecially after a so brief time) it will be compensation for the damage and protection for the sizeble italian community in Tunisia, said that with no commercial war between Italy and France, the Italian Kingdom will not see all the improvement done in the past 20 years evaporate...and frankly with Spain now in the France economic orbit the Latin Monetary Union can even work.
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We still have a couple decades before war... I may be ending this TL... this is my first one, and I don't think its written well. Too many problems... ect... I would start a new one. TBD if I will continue. I may bump it once or twice.
Do as you wish but my main problem with it is that in the third republic the president was a figurehead with very limited power. The head of the government is the president of the council of ministers is the one who has the most power and even then goverment were very short lived. The majority could change over a good speech and that's not even an exageration. And why would France antagonise Britain while Germany is breathing down their neck? That's counter-productive if you want France to recover Alsace-Lorraine.We still have a couple decades before war... I may be ending this TL... this is my first one, and I don't think its written well. Too many problems... ect... I would start a new one. TBD if I will continue. I may bump it once or twice.
I like a good french timeline being francophone so if you need advice for name in french you can ask me in pm.I must admit I have started having problems motivating myself to work on this TL. The problem is there are some quite unrealistic things I have already done. Also by 1871 it a little late for France to recover. Thus I have decided to end this TL. However I will be incorporating several elements from this TL to my new one. Thanks for the support guys - I am very proud of my first TL, even if it died prematurely. For those who are curious about how this TL would of ended... it would have been a stretch. I highly recomend that everybody who liked this TL to subscribe to my new TL "The Fair Treatment"