markus meecham
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Also, i've never looked at a portrait of his majesty before the update, but he looks exactly how i expected someone that finessed a kingdom would look like, down to the tiny stache.
King Theodore's Corsica
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Absolutely. "Corsican democracy" started as a pro-Genoese movement against the native feudal lords, who were generally pro-Aragonese. A more competent or simply a more hands-off administration which preserved that goodwill could have completely changed the course of Corsican history. The real problem, though, was simply that the Genoese system was always closed, even to most of their own upper classes. Corsicans were always treated as colonial subjects, whose judges, administrators, and bishops were always Genoese transplants. The most the Republic ever did to involve Corsicans in their own affairs was to maintain the advisory dodici, but this proved insufficient. Ultimately, it didn't even keep the notabili in line.
Those numbers are OTL, and I don't know what their tie-breaking procedure was. The reason there were 12 original dodici, however, was apparently because each one was responsible for one month of the year. To what extent they actually voted on things as a corporate body is something I don't know (the later Genoese-controlled dodici elected an orator, but I don't know when this office first came into being). Enlarging the council to 18 presumably screwed up the monthly rotation, although the rotation system may have been dead by that point anyway; certainly I haven't read of the system being in effect in the 18th century, when the dodici was entirely advisory.
I am not aware of the reason for having 24 members of the Theodoran Diet except that it is divisible by 3 (reflecting the 2:1 Diqua to Dila ratio already evident in the dodici of 18). There was no monthly rotation for the Diet, although there was a requirement that three members (two from the Diqua and one from the Dila) attend the king at all times, which may have been managed in a rotational system of some kind.
You may have missed it earlier in the thread, but I made a imgur album of contemporary Theodore portraits. He is shown both with and without the mustache; I'm not really sure when (and if) he grew it.
markus meecham
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He looks as slick as a catfish covered in soap in most of them.
Not sure if that word convenes the meaning i want...
More like a middle ground between slick and sleazy.
The kind of guy that has the gall to claim a crown the way he did.
Md139115
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Possibly.
I think it interesting that though all the portraits look different, they all display prominent traits that presumably the real Theodore must have had. Apparently, he must have had an oblong face, a large nose, and some very high cheekbones.
Carp has edited the most recent update, presumably putting a paragraph about the ex-Duchess of Guastalla in place of references to Genoa. All those subsequent messages about Genoa now look like spoilers!
Meanwhile, about the ex-Duchess... Carp, did you feel that she would need to have lost her titles and land in Italy before countenancing the King's proposal?
Meanwhile, about the ex-Duchess... Carp, did you feel that she would need to have lost her titles and land in Italy before countenancing the King's proposal?
He hasn't.
The sentence we were talking about is still there.
"Soon after returning to Corti, he had dispatched Don Federico, Principe di Capraia to travel to Vienna, ostensibly for discussions regarding the crisis in Genoa where a popular uprising had shaken the city and would soon wrest control from the oligarchic government."
Clearly they must have all the islands. This includes the islands outside of the Mediterranean. Technically of course continents are also islands...
TLDR Corsican World Conquest when?
Fearless Leader
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Speaking of colonies, though perhaps ones of a different sort....
It seems to me that if Corsica is going to retain it's independence, it's going to need to adopt a policy of formally established international neutrality unless it becomes essentially a French satellite state. I could see this state of affairs occuring after TTL's Seven Years War if the Corsicans play their cards right, though perhaps it occurs later in the early 19th century. A Corsica which has it's neutrality internationally recognized before Switzerland, plus it's policies of Jewish Emancipation, plus it's strategic location in the Mediterranean might lead to it becoming a major financial services hub in TTL.
Shady businessmen stashing their ill-gotten gains in "Corsican Bank Accounts"? TTL's version of the League of Nations being headquartered in Ajaccio? Think of the fun Conspiracy theorists would have in TTL!
It seems to me that if Corsica is going to retain it's independence, it's going to need to adopt a policy of formally established international neutrality unless it becomes essentially a French satellite state. I could see this state of affairs occuring after TTL's Seven Years War if the Corsicans play their cards right, though perhaps it occurs later in the early 19th century. A Corsica which has it's neutrality internationally recognized before Switzerland, plus it's policies of Jewish Emancipation, plus it's strategic location in the Mediterranean might lead to it becoming a major financial services hub in TTL.
Shady businessmen stashing their ill-gotten gains in "Corsican Bank Accounts"? TTL's version of the League of Nations being headquartered in Ajaccio? Think of the fun Conspiracy theorists would have in TTL!
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And what about legalized gambling?
Corsica could wind up Monaco and Switzerland smooshed together on one island.
Because Carp just finished part/book 1 of the timeline. He’s got to do research, devise the story and figure out butterflies. Also the guy could just have work to do.
Be patient