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DrakeRlugia replied to the thread Consequences of No Restoration of the French Parlements?.I definitely agree re: Calonne, though I think his reforms came a bit too late given the terrible shape of France's finances by the... -
DrakeRlugia replied to the thread Anno Obumbratio: A 16th Century Alternate History.Yes, that's very true. Between two and four million people were killed throughout the entirety of the conflict between 1562-1598. I...
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DrakeRlugia replied to the thread Anno Obumbratio: A 16th Century Alternate History.Italy was also very wealthy and economically developed before the destruction and upheavals of the Italian Wars. Much of the northern /...
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DrakeRlugia replied to the thread Consequences of No Restoration of the French Parlements?.Yes, as Constantine says, the term Parlement can be confusing. The French Parlements were legal courts (essentially provincial appellate...
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DrakeRlugia replied to the thread Anno Obumbratio: A 16th Century Alternate History.Honestly, it was not much more libertine than OTL. Not enough to press secularization forward, IMO. Libertinism could very easily go...
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DrakeRlugia replied to the thread WI: Maria Theresa of Austria married Charles III of Spain?.This may very well be the case—but I think there was also a need for both sides to have such an alliance at that point in time...
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DrakeRlugia replied to the thread France gets Burgundian Inheritance, what now?.I'll side-step 'how' France inherits Burgundy for now, since that's a difficult question and there's a variety ways for us to get there...
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DrakeRlugia replied to the thread WI: Maria Theresa of Austria married Charles III of Spain?.Well, it would be distinct branches—not all under one person. The French and Spanish Bourbons did not always walk in lockstep, and...
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DrakeRlugia posted the thread WI: Maria Theresa of Austria married Charles III of Spain? in Alternate History Discussion: Before 1900.Maria Theresa, Charles VI's heiress, was at the center of his plans of what might happen following his eventual demise. While there...
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DrakeRlugia replied to the thread What if Japan was a colonial super power before the 19th century?.For Spain and Portugal, yes. France's most profitable colonies in the New World were not it's extensive territories in Canada and...
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DrakeRlugia replied to the thread WI: rice and rubber became cultivated in the Mediterrranean and Europe starting from Roman times?.IIRC, the Romans were aware of rice, but it was mostly a luxury import. They imported Oryza Sativa from India, and there's some proof...
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DrakeRlugia replied to the thread Louis XV makes more of an effort to marry his daughters off.Indeed. Victor Amadeus II was married to Anne Marie d'Orléans. His son, Charles Emmanuel was fairly fluid in his alliances: fought...
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DrakeRlugia replied to the thread Plausibility check- Could France & French Indochina have been disinterested in Laos, crisis with Siam, and common border with British Burma?.IIRC, the French found out quite quickly in the 1860s via the 1866-68 Mekong expedition that the Mekong wasn't navigable and would be...
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DrakeRlugia replied to the thread The English Charlemagne: A Plantagenet-Capet TL.This is definitely an interesting idea to ponder Nuraghe, as you discussed in the other thread. I do worry about what might happen after...
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DrakeRlugia replied to the thread Anno Obumbratio: A 16th Century Alternate History.She actually does get married! But much later in life. I don't wanna spoil it, so I've left it off for now. I thought people might be...