Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-10975360-20140409131336/@comment-3428312-20151202012402

Lordganon wrote: Were he to not get away, you'd have had a Free French group more under and influenced by the Allies. Bet on it being weaker, but far more useful.

Darlan becomes an early leader, without De Gaulle to fight with, though probably still gets killed. Giraud would be the leader, overall, and unlike otl would maintain such a position, again, lacking De Gaulle to fight with.

A bit of a Necro I know, but I just happened to read something on this last night and then saw this thread.

Giraud did not have a good relationship with the Anglo-Americans at all, in particular Churchill didn't like him. General consensus I've seen elsewhere is Darlan would like take up the helm of the Free French and without De Gaulle, avoid assassination (Evidence seems to point that way).