Le petit dauphin survives

Very true. So with burgundy surviving, does the Lesseb the continuation of the Spanish war of succession, and given his friendship with the old pretender does it increase the chance of more backing?
 
Without the War of the Quadruple Alliance, what happens to Giulio Alberoni (Elizabeth Farnese's favorite and Spain's minister of state)?
 
Without the War of the Quadruple Alliance, what happens to Giulio Alberoni (Elizabeth Farnese's favorite and Spain's minister of state)?

This is assuming that Adélaïde doesn't scheme to replace her dead sister with her BFF, Louisa Maria Stuart or anyone else for that matter. However, Alberoni could just as easily end up fetched up in Spain for whatever reason. Maybe the Princesse des Ursins stays in Madrid too? Or she could go to the Jacobite Court at St-Germain once Louisa gets there.
 
On that note, what could greater French support achieve for the Jacobite cause

Well, if Jamie the Rover is in France when Anna Gloria kicks, rather than slightly further away, it's a touch closer than Hannover to sally over to England and shout "Long live the King!"
 
Why not let them simply survive the measles/pox? Everyone loves a good miracle survival - see Louis XV and Metz. And I think Louis XIV can soldier on until 1715 like OTL, his health was incredibly robust IIRC, so much so that it wasn't until he was half-eaten away with gangrene in 1715 that he finally died.

Louis XIV might even live beyond 1715 since it was said the triple death of le petite Dauphin, Brittany and Marie-Adelaide was something he never recovered from.

This is assuming that Adélaïde doesn't scheme to replace her dead sister with her BFF, Louisa Maria Stuart or anyone else for that matter. However, Alberoni could just as easily end up fetched up in Spain for whatever reason. Maybe the Princesse des Ursins stays in Madrid too? Or she could go to the Jacobite Court at St-Germain once Louisa gets there.

Another interesting scenario -Louisa Maria Stuart lives (which is very possible since she died in the same smallpox outbreak in 1712 that killed the two Louis and M-A, so if they survive it or it passes the court by, so might she) and Marie-Adelaide marries her very good friend to either the widowed Philip V (replacing her sister) or the Duc de Berri (whose wife died in 1719). Which means the Bourbons have more incentive to help the Old Pretender.
 
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