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IRL between 1814 and 1815, after Napoleon's abdictation but before the hundred days, Savoy, which was French during the napoleonic wars but Sardinian before, was split in two, the west of savoy (more populated) was french while the larger east was given to Piemont, the division of Savoy was done without any consideration of geography, economy or culture, for instance going from Chambery (the traditional capital of savoy) to Grenoble (the nearest largest city) necessitated crossing the border twice! All of savoy would be given to Sardinia after the congress of vienna and the hundred days

Furthermore, the Chablais and Fauchigny sub regions of savoy (in the north, near switzerland) were officialy under no sovereignty after the treaty of paris in may 1814, still effectively under austrian occupation, only a secret amendment of the treaty between france and sardinia-piemont in September would give it to Sardinia, ITTL these two "valleys" are given to Switzerland, as it was done IRL to the Carouge town (now in Geneva canton, taken from officialy Sardinian territory - Carouge being the capital of Sardinian savoy until the french invasion) and its region in 1814, and also because such exchange of Chablais and Fauchigny had been considered several times in the 19th century and is not entirely baseless.

Later, a sonderbund war happens in Switzerland with conservative catholics separating and Chablais-Fauchigny (named Mont-Blanc Canton) being on the side of the sonderbund, while the sonderbund cantons in the swiss plains (fribourg, the small german original ones) get quickly invaded, France helps the remaining "sonderbund cantons' (IRL valais resisted the longest) and manages to split off Valais and Savoy into a separate state.

Description

IRL between 1814 and 1815, after Napoleon's abdictation but before the hundred days, Savoy, which was French during the napoleonic wars but Sardinian before, was split in two, the west of savoy (more populated) was french while the larger east was given to Piemont, the division of Savoy was done without any consideration of geography, economy or culture, for instance going from Chambery (the traditional capital of savoy) to Grenoble (the nearest largest city) necessitated crossing the border twice! All of savoy would be given to Sardinia after the congress of vienna and the hundred days

Furthermore, the Chablais and Fauchigny sub regions of savoy (in the north, near switzerland) were officialy under no sovereignty after the treaty of paris in may 1814, still effectively under austrian occupation, only a secret amendment of the treaty between france and sardinia-piemont in September would give it to Sardinia, ITTL these two "valleys" are given to Switzerland, as it was done IRL to the Carouge town (now in Geneva canton, taken from officialy Sardinian territory - Carouge being the capital of Sardinian savoy until the french invasion) and its region in 1814, and also because such exchange of Chablais and Fauchigny had been considered several times in the 19th century and is not entirely baseless.

Later, a sonderbund war happens in Switzerland with conservative catholics separating and Chablais-Fauchigny (named Mont-Blanc Canton) being on the side of the sonderbund, while the sonderbund cantons in the swiss plains (fribourg, the small german original ones) get quickly invaded, France helps the remaining "sonderbund cantons' (IRL valais resisted the longest) and manages to split off Valais and Savoy into a separate state.