WI: Different Regions of France push for Home Rule

What if the non-Oil speaking regions of France, meaning Brittany, Corsica and the numerous regions of Occitania had, starting at around 1900, found inspiration in the Irish Home Rule Movement of Charles Stewart Parnell and John Redmond, and therefore their own autonomist parties at around that time with the aim of holding the balance of power in the French Parliament so as to force either one of the governing parties to grant Home Rule to the different non-Oil regions of France? The idea is that such political parties would be founded between, say 1895 and 1905, with at least one of them winning a seat in the French parliament by 1914, with those parties growing in influence further thereafter.
Do you see such a movement succeeding at achieving Home Rule for their regions by 1939?
And if so, how would that effect France, during say WW2 and beyond?
 
My opinion is that Corsica and maybe Brittany whould get home rule but be warned not to formally seceded meaning they whould be de facto independendent but de jure part of France also the Corsican and Britton languages whould survive the octanian regions are simply to valuable and to much of a loss of face to give any sort of independence
 

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Was there any reasonable movement pushing for Home Rule in these areas IOTL? If not that is where the comparison to Irish Home Rule runs into an issue.

The Irish had been fighting some level of war against English rule for the better part of a thousand years, with at least six conflicts that deserve a given name between 1790 and 1920.
 
Honestly, did google traumatize you as a child? :rolleyes:

Try these:

https://translate.google.co.uk/tran...ion_r%C3%A9gionaliste_de_Bretagne&prev=search

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breton_Regionalist_Union

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breton_Nationalist_Party

But, really, in Brittany at least these groups remained largely within the cultural and social sphere of activities. They were more concerned with promoting and protecting regional culture than fighting for political self-determination.

Your biggest problem to overcome, and I'm by no means saying your alt-history is impossible, is that the Third Republic went to great efforts to make these regions ''French''. Institutions like the Army, the railways, the judiciary, the schools, etc etc all carried a dominant idea of French language, culture, religion, and society into the disparate regions of France post 1870. A good book on this, even though it is now a little dated, is Eugen Weber's Peasants into Frenchmen.

Really, unless you make massive changes to Belle Epoque France, I personally think these groups will go little further than they did OTL.
 
FYI: Alsace and Moselle still have some specific laws and rules which do not apply to the rest of France. Mainly Concordat is still in place, Social security basic reimbursement is 50% higher than in the interior (but still the only one without a deficit) and some bits and odds about building codes and hunting laws. There used to be a BIG tax loophole but that was plugged in the 70s.
 
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