WI: Prussia annexes Northern France after the Franco Prussian War?

Britain is bound to intervene,but I'm not sure how effective it would be.Austria might jump in too,but that might be balanced by Russia,but I'm not sure how enthusiastic Russia would be to the Prussians annexing so much land in the west.
 
I always recommend this book:
A Duel of Nations: Germany, France, and the Diplomacy of the War of 1870–1871 by David Wetzel.
https://books.google.com.au/books?i...AXfwYCYCA&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

Besides the fact pointed out by everyone that such an annexation was certainly not even remotely considered by Bismarck, the king of Prussia, the military or even the most rabid pan-Germanic nationalist, it would have been the perfect move to snatch an impossible defeat from the jaws of certain victory.

The whole of Europe would have to intervene against such madcap idea. Even Russia would not accept such an aggrandizement of Prussia, reinsurance pact or not. Prussia had already increased in a very significant way in 1866 (while they had not annexed Austrian lands they had directly absorbed (or at least put firmly under their thumb) the north-German states; a major expansion into the north of France would never be tolerated.
 
Here is a link to one of the latests maps and the detailings of the internal borders for Austria Inside: A Greater Germany Timeline.Post 601. Needless to say, you probably should look up the thread first and read form the beginning. Only around thirty pages so far, so an excellent read and it would give some details into... Well, what provinces could be created. Speaking of which, we are talking about the Kingdom of Prussia making the annexation, yes? Or is it meant that the German Empire annexes it, possibly to then be partitioned between the Holzehronns and other monarchs or to instead become a massive Alsace-Lorraine, of which had no monarch in the ways Bavaria(well, before the coup against Ludwig), Saxony, etc had. Just the Kaiser, with the military calling the shots.
 
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Even that would be ASB-territory, actually. Not only there's no way UK would accept Germany clientelizing the hell out of these countries, but no way it get accepted by any french government meaning the war gets long, costly and bogged down (the very opposite of what Bismarck excepted) while destroying all the diplomatical advantage Bismarck managed to, skillfully, get for this war.

Perhaps moving into ASB, but IMHO still more likely than the proposal made in the OP. However I agree, that it's not likely any one of those other countries would have joined the conflict.

Hence I also wrote the last sentence you didn't quote, more likely any more punishing treaty (OTL Frankfurt) might also have included some colonies in addition to Alsace-Lorraine and the reparations like IOTL.
 
Perhaps moving into ASB, but IMHO still more likely than the proposal made in the OP.
Which, all respect due to the OP, may not be the most fitting scale of plausibility :D

Hence I also wrote the last sentence you didn't quote, more likely any more punishing treaty (OTL Frankfurt) might also have included some colonies in addition to Alsace-Lorraine and the reparations like IOTL.
Bismarck never gave too much attention to colonies, as Prussian military elites at this point. It would mainly have been for punishing France, and wouldn't have allowed the colonial diversion Bismarck hoped that the country would went into.

Again, it's worth mentioning that Alsace-Moselle annexation was already a bismarckian concession to Prussian expansionism. Having him agreeing to significantly more (territorialy, at least) would means a Bismarck that would have lost a fair deal of its political importance, which is hardly doable in the wake of a successful Franco-Prussian War.
 
Maybe it would work if ASB gave bismarck a smacking stick that turns everyone it hits into a full blooded prussian,then we could have bismarck traveling across europe expanding the german reich 1 smacked head at a time.
 
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