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Hello, everyone! This is my first time posting practically anything in this site, so I hope I'm not breaking any rule. I think it's important to warn that english isnt my first language, so expect some misspellings and grammatical mistakes, but I'll try to avoid these as much as possible. The...

A canal in the Kra peninsula of Thailand is a project that has been proposed on and off for more than four centuries. The point of this thread is to explore how one could get the French to attempt to build one during the 1890s. Ferdinand de Lesseps had attempted to survey the area and was...

With a pod set after November 1918, when the first world war ended, devise a scenario in which the French monarchy is restored after WW2 or perhaps even before the war starts. After the Franco-Prussian War, France elected a majority of monarchists, mostly legitimists and Orleanists into the...

In 1476 the young Duke of Milan Galeazzo Maria Sforza was assassinated leaving behind his minor son Gian Galeazzo Sforza. He ascended to the throne and his uncle Ludovico Sforza became his regent. He was married to Isabella of Aragon. She requested her father Alfonso II of Naples to help her...

The question is simple, basically France is capable of acquiring the whole of the Burgundian Inheritance, either via Mary of Burgundy being born later and being wed to Charles VIII of France or the French having success in conquering it fully from the Austrians or maybe Charles the Bold is...

Prologue A map of Europe in 1460, before the Battle of Wakefield in northern England. This map therefore shows Europe as it was before ANY butterflies are released. Screenshot is from The History of Europe: Every Year (timestamp 8:58). Credit to the YouTuber Cottereau for the excellent video...

I know this scenario may be ASB, and I’m not an expert on Medieval European history, but hear me out. Let’s say that the Umayyad raiders win the Battle of Tours, and Charles Martel is killed. The Umayyads use this as an opportunity to expand their borders past Septimania into more of Southern...

Picture this. The French Revolution stabilized with the constitutional monarchy instead of turning republican, and the National Assembly endured. I know that the British public was quite receptive of the French Revolution in its earlier stages, before the republic and execution of Louis XVI. Is...

It's time for the long awaited (hopefully) rewrite of my original TL, Kingdom-Building: A Valois-Bourgogne TL. The first chapter will be posted soon.

Let's Imagine the French simply can't get Vietnam. Either because its Chinese, British, stronger idk. The point is there is never a "French Indochina". What could be their next colony instead? I've heard the French REALLY wanted a colony there, so I suppose that even if they never acquire...

Let’s suppose that the Franco-Prussian war ends as IIRC Bismarck wanted it to - Germany is unified, but Alsace-Lorraine isn’t seized, and no French colonies are taken as spoils of war either. Would France still be a permanent enemy of Germany into the 20th century, or could a more amicable peace...

What if Napoleon II had lived? Would he eventually return to France and resume his reign? (he was technically emperor in 1815 iotl)

Based upon this thread https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/ahc-the-six-wives-of-francis-i.544771/#post-24412601

I’m OTL, Phillip II of Spain and his third wife, Elisabeth of Valois had two daughters, Isabel Clara Eugenia and Catalina Micaela, but what if they were both sons (Named Philip and Ferdinand respectively)? I know Don Carlos’s death may be butterflied, but at the same time Philip didn’t exactly...

Let’s say our POD is that the Visigoths win the battle of Vouille. There’s also plenty of PODs a few years before Vouille if you prefer. The overall war ends in a stalemate, and Clovis dies before he can go for round two, leaving his kingdom divided amongst his sons who are temporarily too busy...

July/August 1150 Eleanor of Aquitaine would give birth to twins named Alix of France and Philip of France which were conceived as a result of Pope Eugene III making Eleanor of Aquitaine and Louis VII consummate their relationship, Eleanor and Louis would decide to separate ways months after the...

I've thought about this for a while, but I have been preoccupied with other TL's to focus on it, but now I've found time to discuss this. What if Mary of Burgundy (Philip of Burgundy after his grandfather in this TL) was born a male instead of a girl? One thing that would obviously change is...

The "Guianas" (Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana) are sparsely populated South American countries (some would say culturally part of the Caribbean), which stand out for sharing a very different history compared to other Latin countries - such as having a substantial Hindu pop, or literally...

The "Argentine paradox" is a term used for the economic history of Argentina - at the beginning of the last century the country was one of the richest in the world in terms of GNP per capita, surpassing countries such as Germany, France and the Netherlands, while today it is a middle-developed...

At his accession in 898, Charles the Simple was the last remaining (male) member of the West Francian branch of the Carolingians founded by his grandfather Charles the Bald. Upon the death of his kinsman Louis the Child and the extinction of the East Francian Carolingians in 911, he became the...