Will Kürlich Kerl
Banned
What happens if the Oriental Crisis of 1840 escalates into war?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_Crisis_of_1840
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_Crisis_of_1840
And the UK, at the top of its supremacy, wins very easily.
The french were not stupid.
Past 1814/1815, the main axis of France's foreign policy was "never again a conflict against the UK." The french perfectly knew they could not accord it because they had not a single chance of victory.
So in the end, they always bowed down to british demands or even worked for british interests : the oriental crisis of 1840, the war against Russia in 1854-56, the Fashoda crisis, the treaty of Sevres in 1920 (giving all the oil fields to british Irak, contrarily to the Sykes-Picot agreement), the question of Rhineland post WW1, the remilitarization of Rhineland by f... nazy Germany in 1936.