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I once led another discussion about the French. One of the posters said that "France was also stuck in a seemingly endless period of splintered states and factions" or something close to that. So... what if the French, not the Germans, get stuck with forming an HRE, that soon becomes mear shambles? What POD would be needed for this? What would happen in Europe? What would Germany be like? Italy? What states would later arise from France?
EDIT: Note, I have a French BAM ready to make a map of the split states, so once we get to that stage...