Find a way to form stable French and German empires in Europe. They can dislike each other, but reasons of stability suggest they should probably have reached some sort of accord over the status of the rest of Europe that is mutually agreeable
Somewhere between and including Napoleon III to early-ending or utterly modified WWI (I like all those little kingdoms that vanished). Earlier is okay, but I'm looking for something that can work—if somewhat anachronistically—into the present day. Client states and spheres of influence are acceptable to France actually sprawling across Spain and Italy or Germany sweeping through DoD sized borders.
You can have outside threats (Russia, the USA, the British) to foster a Continental Entente against the dark hordes. Neutral powers that exist on sufferance (the Netherlands, Scandinavia) and large and powerful but nonetheless client states (Spain, Ottoman Empire) are fine. So is Japan or other non-Great Power non-client/sphere of influence states.
Ideally Paris and Berlin should (separately) have the punching weight and influence of any other Great Power.
(If this has been done I couldn't find it through the search engine. Invariably someone dominates Europe.)
Somewhere between and including Napoleon III to early-ending or utterly modified WWI (I like all those little kingdoms that vanished). Earlier is okay, but I'm looking for something that can work—if somewhat anachronistically—into the present day. Client states and spheres of influence are acceptable to France actually sprawling across Spain and Italy or Germany sweeping through DoD sized borders.
You can have outside threats (Russia, the USA, the British) to foster a Continental Entente against the dark hordes. Neutral powers that exist on sufferance (the Netherlands, Scandinavia) and large and powerful but nonetheless client states (Spain, Ottoman Empire) are fine. So is Japan or other non-Great Power non-client/sphere of influence states.
Ideally Paris and Berlin should (separately) have the punching weight and influence of any other Great Power.
(If this has been done I couldn't find it through the search engine. Invariably someone dominates Europe.)