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OTL. There was some trade between France and the Qing. The crown prince even received a modern musket as a gift from the King of France - he used it to defeat the 8-Trigrams Uprising of 1813 . The British insulted the Qing emperor in the Macartney Embassy.

This leads easily for the Qing to declare on the side of the French in the Napoleonic Wars.
They invade India to intervene in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War, but turn back after the death of Tippu.
They invade Russia in 1812 hoping to meet up with Napoleon at Moscow.
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