WI France loses all its colonies after the congress of Vienna.

I understand the great powers were trying to create a balance of power in Europe after the Napoleonic wars, so WI instead of losing Land on Europe France lost all colonial land after the hundred day war. E.g. Senegal given to the Netherlands to compensate the lose of Cape colony, Guyana to Portugal and the Caribbean islands to Britain and Spain.


Image of land France lost on the continent: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...ins_territoriaux_de_la_France_en_1814.svg.png
 
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The problem with that is how are continental nations that lack or don't want colonies compensated, like Switerzland. Also it leaves France as a more powerful figure on the Continent which is something the Coalition doesn't want.
 
The problem with that is how are continental nations that lack or don't want colonies compensated, like Switerzland. Also it leaves France as a more powerful figure on the Continent which is something the Coalition doesn't want.

Definitely the latter.

Plus the allies wanted to avoid French revanchism as well as prop up the Bourbons as legitimate rulers
Snatching away colonies and pieces of territory would done alot to destablize both intentions
 
I understand the great powers were trying to create a balance of power in Europe after the Napoleonic wars, so WI instead of losing Land on Europe France lost all colonial land after the hundred day war. E.g. Senegal given to the Netherlands to compensate the lose of Cape colony, Guyana to Portugal and the Caribbean islands to Britain and Spain.


Image of land France lost on the continent: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...ins_territoriaux_de_la_France_en_1814.svg.png

I'd think "in addition to losing land on the continent" would be far more plausible.
 
The first thing you have to do is have France treated like the loser of the wars, rather than one of the victors.

Talleyrand managed to pull a fast one, getting the Bourbon monarchy to be considered one of the victors against Napoleon.

If a less competent diplomat were chosen, France would be treated worse.

Then if the 100 days still happens, maybe the Coalition could be talked into treating France much more harshly (as they clearly were still dangerously Bonapartist).

In which case, France might lose a bit more in Continental Europe and all but token colonies overseas.
 
The first thing you have to do is have France treated like the loser of the wars, rather than one of the victors.

Talleyrand managed to pull a fast one, getting the Bourbon monarchy to be considered one of the victors against Napoleon.

If a less competent diplomat were chosen, France would be treated worse..

That's just silly. Nobody was stupid enough to think that France was one of the victors. Everybody knew that France was firmly behind Napoleon and did not want the Bourbons back.

The real reason was that Russia and Prussia had expansionist plans in Poland in which Britain and Austria needed France's help to contain them. Talleyrand took advantage of this and played Britain, Austria against Russia, Prussia. His skillful diplomacy worked and France got off lightly while Russia and Prussia backed down out of going to war over Poland as they didn't want to fight France again.
 
I understand the great powers were trying to create a balance of power in Europe after the Napoleonic wars, so WI instead of losing Land on Europe France lost all colonial land after the hundred day war. E.g. Senegal given to the Netherlands to compensate the lose of Cape colony, Guyana to Portugal and the Caribbean islands to Britain and Spain.
What colonies did France still have? A couple in India, some Caribean islands, some parts of Africa and Guyana, I think, but what exactly?
 
What colonies did France still have? A couple in India, some Caribean islands, some parts of Africa and Guyana, I think, but what exactly?

French Guiana, several West Indian islands (Guadeloupe and Martinique and St. Martin), Senegal, and a couple cities in India.

Commercial influence was still pretty influential here and there (Gold Coast, for example), too.
 
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