What is the biggest France could get post-WWII?

Did the French have anything to gain beyond what they ended up getting if not for outside interference or the like?
 
Saarland could have stayed a French protectorate I imagine. Maybe a foothold on the whole other side of the Rhein?
 
For a while, French troops occupied the Val d'Aosta (outraging the US government)--though it has been argued that "de Gaulle had no real intention of annexing the Val d'Aosta. Rather he saw it as a diplomatic move to gain a bargaining chip that could be used in future negotiations in order to assert French leadership in Franco-Itlaian relations." https://books.google.com/books?id=ihZkpI3n5hIC&pg=PA50

In the Saar, "Much support was given to the Mouvement pour le Rattachement de la Sarre à la France, a Francophile movement founded by Saar exiles in Paris in early 1945, with many of the exiles having returned after the war. However, a French annexation did not gain the support of a majority of the Sarrois." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saar_Protectorate
 
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Raymond Aubrac (Resistance member, husband of Lucie Aubrac who specialized in breaking people out of Gestapo's jails including her own husband) mentioned to de Gaulle that he only needed his okay to annex Monaco whose prince's activities were not exactly commendable during the war. Fortunately for gossip rags everywhere, de Gaulle replied he would have been perfectly fine with it so long that he could have maintained plausible deniability. Which Aubrac's request blew apart.
 
There were some independentist Québécois in the 1960s that had a good chance at reaching independence, and I heard Quebec would've joined France instead of staying independent. How does it sound for bigger France?
 
Perhaps France could keep Algeria (it was integrated to France) or leastly some areas on the coast. And if Belgium dissolves to French and Dutch states, France might annex Vallonia.
 
Perhaps France could keep Algeria (it was integrated to France) or leastly some areas on the coast. And if Belgium dissolves to French and Dutch states, France might annex Vallonia.

After WWII, it's hard to keep Algeria. Not impossible though, you need two things: no Dien Bien Phu disaster and a better recognition of muslims rights.

Some Muslim/colonised representation as recognition by de Gaulle of the role of the Indigènes (Tchad comes to mind) could help defuse some of the biggest issues. Because they were complete second class citizen, Algeria was in an apartheid state. Get rid of that, at least partially, and it will stay in.

Of course you need to overcome pieds-noirs résistance to the idea. Even now, de Gaulle is not a popular figure for "letting" Algeria be independant (and the whole "je vous ai compris" thing) so I can't imagine the backlash at any tentative to give arabs a bigger voice
 
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