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So I'm working on a story where a successful Norse settlement in the New World and unsuccessful late 15th century European attempts at settling the new world results in a timeline where colonization of the Americas never happens on a large scale (but efforts towards the Indian Ocean trade...

What would be the effects of France decisively winning the War of Polish Succession. While France didn't lose the war, they however didn't exactly accomplish all of their objectives. Louis XV failed to reinstate his father-in-law to the Polish throne. He however did "win the peace" with the...

The idea is simple - Battle of Nancy happens just like OTL, and Charles the Bold dies without son on January the 5th, 1477. Is there any way for his daughter, Mary of Burgundy to somehow "salvage the situation" and save her father's legacy? Adn to be clear, since XV/XVI political system wasn't...

IOTL, communist states never arose in western nations. Going against Marx’ predictions, the countries that would fall to communism weren’t highly industrialized capitalist nations, but rather countries with high populations of peasants such as Russia and China. It seems that the western country...

In May of 1946, a Constitutional Referendum was presented to the French electorate, featuring reforms such as greatly expanding the power of the Assembly, abolishing the Senate, and more. The Yes side was backed by the Communists and SFIO, who failed to run a unified campaign. The No side was...

Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy (1433 –1477), wanted the Burgundian state to become a kingdom. How do you think he could have achieved this? He needed full autonomy from both the Holy Roman Emperor and the king of France. Do you think with this full autonomy, Burgundy could have become even...

Like it says on the tin. Before its subjugation at the hands of France, Vietnam was an empire that was in the process of expanding its borders southward, in the Mekong Delta and Cambodia. So, was there any way it could've kept its independence? Is it a matter of not providing the French with a...

This time, unlike my last TL, I want to avoid France's dramatic population lag and confirm them as the #1 Power, more effectively neutering the UK and Russia. The lore this time is simple. I want to prevent Napoleon's four greatest mistakes. 1. Not Dismantling Prussia. 2. The Continental...

IOTL, Portugal briefly flirted with colonizing eastern Canada (Newfoundland & Labrador, Nova Scotia), while France attempted to take Brazil in the 1550's. I'm planning out a TL where I basically swap France and Portugal around: France gets Brazil, successfully throwing out the Portuguese, and as...

The POD here is quite straightforward; Louis Philippe, along with his two brothers, die during the French revolution which means the House of Orléans goes extinct. The two brothers were imprisoned in Marseille during the revolution and we could say they died there. Louis Phillippe was almost...

Great War history is not my forte so I'm not sure if this is possible. But, assuming everything goes comically wrong for the Central Powers, and everything right for the Entente--perhaps with earlier PODs resulting in a better prepared France and Russia--I was wondering if this scenario is...

In 1658, King Louis XIV became ill, and nearly died. For a brief moment, his younger brother Philippe, would become heir presumptive to the French throne. However his brother recovered, and would go on to become one of the longest reigning monarch in history and arguably one of the greatest...

There are hundreds of threads ctalking about the american civil war, and how if it had gone differently, it would have affected america. But, I am more interested in what a divided US means for Europe. OTL, France used the turmoil of the American Civil War to intervene in Mexico, and Spain used...

Hello there, In Line of Wing's work on FFO (may he be praised), which cannot of course pretend to translate everything, I have thought it would be interesting to add a few addentum, annexs and personnals files of all the authors. The thread will be alimented ... when I got time. Still, I hope...

Who would take or control France's other territories and colonies? How are the Native Africans treated in this exile republic? Will the government collapse? What is France's relationship with the homeland? What is their relationship with the rest Europe? What is the political landscape in the...

This question stemmed from a more, interesting one, that being, what if France continued Tiger and Panther production post war instead of going with the ARL 44 or the AMX M4 1945? Obviously it would have been quite complicated given that they (or as far as I know) were not in possession of any...

If Germany wins WW1 by a successfull Schlieffen Plan (so a faster war), what will happen to France? How will the political system develop? Is there a continue of the Republic, a large red revolution (Paris Commune XL) or maybe some far-right regime change by for example the Action Française...

How would this affect West Africa and how would this impact the British and French presence later on?

What if Louis Blanc's socialist policy had not been a disaster? Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte still comes to power, but the socialists have much more power. Napoleon would seek out an alliance with the socialists, and Blanc would accept. The Dance of Peasants and Kings is an interesting world with a...

On 1199, Constance of Brittany agreed to ally with Philip II and betroth her daughter Eleanor of Brittany to Louis, Prince of France as a condition of the Treaty of Le Goulet, later Louis VIII and support the decisions of Innocent III and Philippe Auguste for the good of her duchy, this would...