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What it says in the title. What if France and Spain had won the War of the Spanish Succession, thus securing the Spanish inheritance for the House of Bourbon? Lets say the Franco-Bavarian Army wins the Battle of Blenheim and manages to take Vienna, so the war ends in 1704/5. What would the far-reaching consequences be? Would Spain be able to rekindle the flame of its Empire, both European and Colonial ?Would Austria, without being overextended trying to hold the Netherlands and the Italian territories, be more successful in their later wars with the Ottoman Empire? What would France, its position as the Greatest of the Great powers secured, do next? How would the rest of Louis XIV's reign look like without a war? Would such a butterfly be enough to change the fates of le Grand Dauphin,le Petit Dauphin, his wife Marie-Adelaide, their oldest son the Duc de Bretagne and Emperor Joseph I?

What would these personages surviving change? Any and all comments are welcome!
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