Independent Corsica

Perhaps if it's occupied by Britain during the Napoleonic wars and never returned to France... That seems quite unlikely, but not impossible...

That way there would also be less French influences on Corsican culture anf with british influence replacing it, Corisca would probably end up quite different from both France and Italy. It probably wouldn't be peacefully independent from Britain until the 60's, but a nationalist rebellion on Corsica when Britain is busy somewhere else?

Another Mediterranean power could support the rebels hoping to create a client state on the island (perhaps failing?). Maybe it would be like on Ireland? A rebellion leading to independence, but with Corsica remaining in the british sphere
 
Have the Corsicans get victory early on, especially a Corsican victory at the Battle of Ponte Novu.

OK, so it doesn't match the OP since the POD is 1769, but that would be how I would see an independent Corsica to continue existing.
 
Perhaps if it's occupied by Britain during the Napoleonic wars and never returned to France... That seems quite unlikely, but not impossible...

That way there would also be less French influences on Corsican culture anf with british influence replacing it, Corisca would probably end up quite different from both France and Italy. It probably wouldn't be peacefully independent from Britain until the 60's, but a nationalist rebellion on Corsica when Britain is busy somewhere else?

Another Mediterranean power could support the rebels hoping to create a client state on the island (perhaps failing?). Maybe it would be like on Ireland? A rebellion leading to independence, but with Corsica remaining in the british sphere

could it exist with a continuing Napoleonic France should it prevail if occupied by the British...and to add insult to injury...Let the Bourbons continue to rule there as the Kdm of France ( under the protection of the Anti French powers). Personally I think that Napoleon or any of the Bonapartes would have apoplexy at such a suggestion.

When the people get tired of the imperial Bonapartes...perhaps the Bourbons can them stage a resurgence using nearby Corsica as their base...

Now that would be a couple of giggles.
 

Vitruvius

Donor
I think the British are the best route. Maybe an invasion post-Trafalgar to restore the Anglo-Corsican_Kingdom. Then the British just hold onto it (nominally at least) after the war. Sort of like Malta with more autonomy. Though personally I'd love to see a revival of Paoli's Corsican Republic. Its just such a quixotic idiosyncratic state, a Republic that was actually a monarchy with the Virgin Mary as its sovereign, female suffrage a constitution etc all in the 1760s. Reminds me of inter-war Hungary a landlocked Monarchy with no King and an Admiral standing in as Regent, though in that comparison Corsica comes out as perhaps more progressive.
 

Thande

Donor
I think the British are the best route. Maybe an invasion post-Trafalgar to restore the Anglo-Corsican_Kingdom. Then the British just hold onto it (nominally at least) after the war. Sort of like Malta with more autonomy. Though personally I'd love to see a revival of Paoli's Corsican Republic. Its just such a quixotic idiosyncratic state, a Republic that was actually a monarchy with the Virgin Mary as its sovereign, female suffrage a constitution etc all in the 1760s. Reminds me of inter-war Hungary a landlocked Monarchy with no King and an Admiral standing in as Regent, though in that comparison Corsica comes out as perhaps more progressive.
Corsica had female suffrage?? That's the first I've heard of it!

(Relevant to my interests because the Republic gets restored after the alt-French Revolution in my TL).
 
That's the first i've ever read about the Anglo-Corscian Kingdom. I could see it being incorporated into the UK with the right amount of support and the right butterflies.
 

The Vulture

Banned
In the interest of keeping creative juices flowing, here's an old flag used to represent Corsica. Let's assume that an independent nation would use it.

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I believe that flag is still used by Corsican independentistes today. And the Moor's head also appears in the old Sardinian flag, of course.
 

Vitruvius

Donor
Corsica had female suffrage?? That's the first I've heard of it!

(Relevant to my interests because the Republic gets restored after the alt-French Revolution in my TL).

Well that's debatable actually. Women traditionally had greater power and rights in the rural communities of the interior where Paoli's Republic was based so theoretically they may have been able to vote/influence the political process to a greater extent than women elsewhere. I was just trying to make a point. The Corsican Republic was in someways a generation ahead of its time, with a written constitution, an elected legislature and legal framework greatly influenced by the enlightenment. Paoli even established a University a la Thomas Jefferson. Much of the credit for this has to go to Paoli considering that Corsica was still pretty rural and clannish outside the Genovese citadels on the coast. Certainly he did better than 'King' Theodore.
 

Thande

Donor
Well that's debatable actually. Women traditionally had greater power and rights in the rural communities of the interior where Paoli's Republic was based so theoretically they may have been able to vote/influence the political process to a greater extent than women elsewhere. I was just trying to make a point. The Corsican Republic was in someways a generation ahead of its time, with a written constitution, an elected legislature and legal framework greatly influenced by the enlightenment. Paoli even established a University a la Thomas Jefferson. Much of the credit for this has to go to Paoli considering that Corsica was still pretty rural and clannish outside the Genovese citadels on the coast. Certainly he did better than 'King' Theodore.
Oh I definitely agree it was ahead of its time, it's just I don't think they would have had female suffrage, especially not in writing.

In Britain at the time the suffrage law was mainly focused on property ownership, with the result that rich widows could theoretically vote (though I don't think it happened very often). Female voting wasn't formally banned until the Great Reform Act in the 1830s, when I think they saw it as closing a constitutional loophole.
 
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