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Originally Posted by Youenn
If they accept an autonomous province, there are no reason to give autonomy to Brittany, Corsica or even... "french" Flanders ! Just for it, republicans will refuse and Wallons never will accept to lose their autonomy I think so.
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Well, I agree and disagree at the same time. The government was ready to give Corsica an important authonomy status, but the Corsicans refused it through a referendum (a referendum that was, by the way, stigmatized by hardcore jacobinists as "anti-Republican"). I don't think that Sarkozy is so fond of jacobinism. He is a pragmatic politician who thinks like an American, so he would not be basically and ideologically opposed to a federalist/autonomist move.
Also, you have to admit that there is not such a strong will of authonomy in Brittany, as there is in our overseas colonies or Corsica for instance.
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I don't know if it's a British creation
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The idea of Belgium was strongly supported by British freemasons and thus British governement as a way to counter French ambitions in this area; the Napoleonic era was still a nightmare for many Brits and especially they wanted the port of Antwerp to stay out of French hands. French claims to Belgium only stopped in 1871 with the fall of the Second Empire by the way.
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Originally Posted by Youenn
but it's really the copy of the French Republic.
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A monarchist version of jacobinism, yes.