WI: Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine became founder of the 2nd House of Guise?

In OTL, Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, younger brother of HRE Francis, was married to Maria Anna of Austria (who died a year later after the marriage) and became the Governor-General of the Austrian Netherlands.
(en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Charles_Alexander_of_Lorraine)

My question is: What if instead of marrying Maria Anna and becoming G.G. Prince Charles is offered the title of Duke of Guise and Prince Etranger in the french court?
 
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In OTL, Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, younger brother of HRE Francis, was married to Maria Anna of Austria (who died a year later after the marriage) and became the Governor-General of the Austrian Netherlands.
(en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Charles_Alexander_of_Lorraine)

My question is: What if instead of marrying Maria Anna and becoming G.G. Prince Charles is offered the title of Duke of Guise and Prince Etranger in the french court?

Could make for interesting times. Obviously the French will be feeling uncomfortable about it (they claim the duchy of Lorraine the minute Stanislas Leszczynski's dead) especially if Charles has a son (perhaps he's been married off to a French princesse du sang (maybe a princess of Modena) as a way of smoothing ruffled feathers), who can likewise claim it, but on the whole, I think the French will attempt to Gallicize Charles and his heirs as much as possibl in order to prevent them from claiming Lorraine. Now if the OTL French Revolution occurs, then we might see a Caroline Lorrainer claiming the duchy instead of the Holy Roman EMperor (as happened OTL), but bear in mind, the 18th century wasn't exactly kind to the cadet branches of the house of Lorraine domiciled in France, since most of them went extinct or were whittled down so far that by the mid-19th century they were extinct, leaving only the Imperial line in Vienna.
 
Kellen Sullivan, I was thinking that with the Diplomatic Revolution of the mid 18th century, the ATL Duke of Guise could act as an Intermediary Between France and Austria, and Perhaps, sometime along the way, the descendants of the Duke of Guise would become a possible candidate for the Throne of Belgium. what do you think about this?
 
IDK, Charles' position as governor-general was at first by right of his wife being the only surviving sibling of MT. Then after she died in childbirth, he took over as Governor-General simply because of a lack of other Habsburgs to fill the post. OTL he never remarried after his wife's death, reportedly telling his sister, the abbess of Remiremont (Anne Charlotte de Lorraine) that 'there is no point in remarrying for what will my children inherit?' when she berated him for his long-standing affair with the mother of one of his bastards. And Josef II used the reasoning to nullify Charles' will (he was/became pretty wealthy OTL (the Habsburg-Teschen wealth comes in part from him)), by saying that Charles, as a member of the Imperial Family, had not obtained imperial consent when making his will, and so it was null and void.

Now, this would need a POD (possibly after the marriage of François III to Maria Theresia in 1736 when the duchy was renounced, but before Charles' marriage to Maria Anna in 1743). Perhaps his mother, who was against the signing away of the duchy (she was willing that François renounce it to Charles, but not renounce it completely), a French princess by birth and cousin to Louis XV, is more successful in persuading her youngest son to go to Paris instead of Vienna. That said, though, if the French match mentioned above goes through, the Viennese impression of François as a spying French coward (there were quite a few puns made on his name in German 'Franz' and the German for French 'Franzoischer' concerning their dislike of him), will be still greater.

And even if Charles accepts the pension and position at Versailles, its a long jump from 1740s Europe to Belgian Independence of the 1790s (Brabant Revolution)/1830s
 
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