WI: No French Algeria

POD: 1830

Somewhat cooler heads prevail in the court of Charles X after the whole Fly Whisk affair happened, and instead of a full bore invasion and occupation of Algiers a somewhat less ambitious French punitive expedition simply smacked around the Dey's military and fleet until word of the July Revolution came. While the victory was popular there were not enough troops to occupy the place even with Hussein Dey's authority limited to the city of Algiers itself, so instead the government of Louis-Philippe presented the Algerians with a slightly punitive peace treaty (Extraterritoriality of merchants, personal responsibility for any privateers in the area, members of the dey's household as "guests" of the French Court, Catholic churches in the main ports, that sort of thing). To thier credit, the Kingdom of the French also lumped in a payment plan for the unpaid debt that started the whole mess.

When the revolution of 1848 rolled around there were a few ex-pirates who hoped to start attacks on the Second Republic's shipping (on the basis that thier agreement was with the French king), but the Vizir Abdelkader instead consulted with Prince *Farouk (who had spend much of his formative years in France) on resenting the government of Louis Napoleon with a new treaty. The primary change beyond tone was one of mutuality (Algerian merchants had the same perks in France as French ones had in Algeria, construction of Mosques in Marseille authorized, etc) and as everyone in Paris had other things to worry about it was approved with no argument beyond reducing everyone's extraterritorial status.

Now what?

HTG
 
A indirect consequence. The wine culture in Algeria, imported by colonists, would not be able to make metropolitan one decline and beeing in permanant crisis.
The illegals modifications of wine (adding sugar, etc) would be likely not appearing, or at least not at the great scale than OTL, and the 1907 strike and uprising in Lengadoc and Northen Catalunya wouldn't appear.

The little and medium winers would be still the major producers in southern France, avoiding the exepends of CAP towards them.
 
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