A more solid system of banking than the tax-farmers and loans from people like Tournehem and Pâris (Madame de Pompadour's purported father) could be fascinating to see a Banque of France being established.
I don't know what influence the Huguenots had in France or in Austria, but Austria got...
Louis XIV expelled the Huguenots from France with the 1685 Edict of Fontainebleau (also known as the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes). As a result, you had many Huguenots making their way to England, Holland, the Palatinate (where the Neuburg succession would soon force them to Catholicize...
Interesting. Would a princess of Brunswick really be considered for Josef I's son though? I'm always for surviving Habsburgs, so that's great, I just wonder what she'd bring to the table? Or would Joseph I probably having married his Danish bride here mean that a match with Brunswick is more...
Theoretically, it would be Max IIRC from research I did for a TL when I first joined the board. However, Carlos could easily have left alternate instructions.
TBH? Not much. For the first 50years of the 18th century, Bavaria was beig outstripped (in terms of progress) by Prussia, Saxony, even...
I don't think the situations are THAT similar. Although I agree that Louis Quatorze is NOT his great-great-grandson. Karl Theodor was a foreigner who arrived from the Palatinate when he was already in his fifties. Who his heir would be was...well...up in the air because he and his wife had no...
If I'd put money on it, I'd say Brandenburg sides with the Palatinate. The families have intermarried enough in the last century or so, but also because of religion. True, this ISN'T suddenly going to make Bavaria Protestant, but German princes tended to get crabby about imperial preferment. To...
Sheesh Kel, I get married, move, have a kid and by the time I come back you've got a Wettin Spain, a Protestant Bavaria and a Catholic Hannover :winkytongue:?
Still, gotta admit, agree with Constantine that this gives the Habsburgs some "fresh blood". Unfortunately, the "freshness" only lasts a...
Well, this is an interesting - not to mention novel - idea ;)
That said, I'd be very interested to see how the relationships between the Spanish Wettins and their Saxon cousins are. Do we see some more German (i.e. Bavarian, Welf, odd Hesse rather than Habsburg) queens of Spain? Is there...
As this extract from the paper Josephine Beheaded:
So...what if Lazare Hoche had knocked up Josephine. And, for sanity's sake, let's assume that he's certain he's the father (and that Hoche missed his wedding to his OTL wife). How does this affect things?
According to Tim Venning, Frederick, Prince of Wales had a plan to create his third son, Henry, "duke of Virginia". More than that, Poor Fred apparently also intended to send his son to the West Indies as a sort of viceroy of the West Indies+Georgia, Carolina etc. Fred's whole idea was to...
Voltaire famously commented that "all states have an army, the Prussian army has a state". After the Soldier-King Friedrich Wilhelm I Prussia tended to follow a strong military policy (thanks, no doubt to Frederick the Great). But Fritz was mocked as "effeminate" by his father for his unmanly...
Why can I see it lasting until the 20th century and then the Americans being even more panicky about Russian Tobago, Cuba and a "red threat" in the Caribbean?
What about a compromise scenario? He met Lili in 1843 in Germany. If he's king of France I doubt he's going to be junketing off across the Rhine (look at Pedro II), so perhaps keep the 1830 deposition in place. That way, Henri only needs to travel from Frohsdorf (in Lower Austria) to Russian...