For the sake of responding i call first/second post! Now didnt we just have this thread *looks through pages* guess not. Well its not like its unrealistic, Germany could pretty much do what ever the hell it wants with France, and the French mainland isnt really in a position to resist, but just... why? I mean it might help gain some points with the French civilians if the north isnt occupied but the randomness of installing new governments on a people who dont really have many large differences to exploit will end... odd. Only (rational, there are plenty of irrational) reasons i can see for doing this is if they dont want to have to directly administer an occupied France, they dont want their collaborator governments to get to uppity, they think it would be easier to administer, or they are so manpower strapped that they need more collaborator governments and armies (which would only be stealing resources from Germany but what ever, and how good would a army that hate you be anyways? Whatever im just throwing out ideas)
But for the purpose of fun lets think... Alsace-Lorraine could be one. For the purposes of looking good on a map the Paris area could be given back to Vichy. Brittany is a good one, at least they have a sorta separate culture from the rest of France, not that they actually want to separate but that one is justifiable. It is unfortunately extremely conservative, soooo yeah. A Franche-Comte state (did i just say free state state?) operating under the name of Burgundy (without the duchy of burgundy). Hitler did have a soft spot for the Swiss ive heard. Normandy for um idk it has a historical precedent.
I feel like im ranting so ill stop now.