WI/AHC: Mulhouse in Switzerland

So this little Calvinist republic enclaved in Alsace was part of the Swiss Confederation up until its citizens voted to be annexed by France in 1798.

Please discuss the viability of it being returned to Switzerland after the Napoleonic Wars.
 
You'd probably need to give it a land connection to the main Swiss territories then, perhaps a fairly large chunck of Upper Alsace.
 
I would have thought that the greatest challenge would be if the Mulhousers desire to be French was genuine.
Being an exclave is always a bitch though... But a common hassle thereabouts back then.
 
You'd probably need to give it a land connection to the main Swiss territories then, perhaps a fairly large chunck of Upper Alsace.

It's not that far - about 25km to the nearest border with Switzerland (next to Basel). And much of the Sundgau was and is quite sparsely populated. A "finger" could easily be extended to Mulhouse without too much disruption, or the new border could stick out along the German border, instead of extending solely into France.

Or just leave it an enclave - by the end of the Napoleonic Wars, that was still a thing.
 
It's not that far - about 25km to the nearest border with Switzerland (next to Basel). And much of the Sundgau was and is quite sparsely populated. A "finger" could easily be extended to Mulhouse without too much disruption, or the new border could stick out along the German border, instead of extending solely into France.
In my own TL I do add a chunk of the Sundgau to this new canton.

Or just leave it an enclave - by the end of the Napoleonic Wars, that was still a thing.
I was thinking that they gave Geneva an overland connection to the rest of Switzerland, even though it already had an access route across the lake, so why wouldn't they do that for Mulhausen -- which lacks the lake option, after all -- too?
 
Geneva was somewhat closer than Mulhouse though, when you take into account some of the other territories the city ruled it actually bordered Vaud.
 
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