What if the French who in 1748 had occupied the Austrian Netherlands, created a Kingdom of Belgium under some Bourbon king? Was this possible? And it should include Luxembourg and all the AN and not be part of the HRE anymore.
What if the French who in 1748 had occupied the Austrian Netherlands, created a Kingdom of Belgium under some Bourbon king? Was this possible? And it should include Luxembourg and all the AN and not be part of the HRE anymore.
Maybe some other Bourbon without a throne would have been good enough.The Bourbon king would've been Felipe of Spain, duke of Parma. But unfortunately he wasn't ambitious enough to want anything more than his Italian duchy, while his wife had been the one wrangling with Maria Theresia to get the crown for her husband, apparently. So after she (Louise-Élisabeth de France) died, the idea was dead in the water.
Maybe some other Bourbon without a throne would have been good enough.
The Bourbon king would've been Felipe of Spain, duke of Parma. But unfortunately he wasn't ambitious enough to want anything more than his Italian duchy, while his wife had been the one wrangling with Maria Theresia to get the crown for her husband, apparently. So after she (Louise-Élisabeth de France) died, the idea was dead in the water.
What if the French who in 1748 had occupied the Austrian Netherlands, created a Kingdom of Belgium under some Bourbon king? Was this possible? And it should include Luxembourg and all the AN and not be part of the HRE anymore.
In such a scenario, why wouldn't France just annex the territory itself?
What were the lands given to the Netherlands by France in 1815?
I was asking what were the lands annexed by Holland from France in 1815? And would independent Belgium survive independent after Vienna Congress and maybe get Westhoek from France?Because France was at the mercy of other powers, and they wanted to hem France in with major powers capable of stopping them getting the Rhine frontier: Holland, Savoy and Prussia on the Rhineland.
What were the lands given to the Netherlands by France in 1815?
I was asking what were the lands annexed by Holland from France in 1815? And would independent Belgium survive independent after Vienna Congress and maybe get Westhoek from France?
I meant French border areas ceded to the Netherlands. Maybe someone has a map of it.Southern Netherlands and Liege.
I thought the revolution was about internal economic and social problems. But if there is no revolution, could France transition towards a constitutional monarchy?The butterflies from a Bourbon Belgium could stop the revolution. A big part of the monarchy's collapse in prestige was poor performance in foreign policy.
That was cause an internal Bavarian Dispute(see War of the Bavarian Sucession) Because Frederick the Great Notice if that happened Austria would be far closer to Prussia and Saxony Proper and increased their porportion in the HRE somerthing would be a massive no no for him(plus giving a more defensible border if they want to fight again to recover silesia) so the Prussian intervened. If the prussian are busy it might happenWhy did Bavarian royal family did not want to swap Bavaria for AN?