WI: Division of France after a German win in WWI

Considering an alternate scenario where Germany would have won WWI after a successful invasion of France in 1918 (once Russia was out), is it possible that France could have been divided GDR/FRG style, with an Eastern part controlled by Germany (in one or more puppet states or similar) and a Western part under British protection?

And what could have been the fate of Belgium in this scenario?
 
Germany had no desire to divide France nor would France and Britain under any circumstances consent to such terms. By 1918 the Germans aren't marching down the Champs-Elysees so any terms favorable to Germany would result from a peace of mutual exhaustion that recognizes Brest-Litovsk and more or less restores status quo antebellum to the Western Front. Belgium isn't being annexed by Germany either, the British would demand its continued independence. Protecting Belgium was, after all, their whole reason for declaring war in the first place.
 
Germany had no desire to divide France nor would France and Britain under any circumstances consent to such terms.

French nationalists claimed many times that the only solution for sparing the German threat was the division of the German Empire. Germany could be tempted to do the same given the right opportunity.

France is defeated...and what could Britain do without external help? (assuming that the US do not intervene in this scenario).

By 1918 the Germans aren't marching down the Champs-Elysees so any terms favorable to Germany would result from a peace of mutual exhaustion that recognizes Brest-Litovsk and more or less restores status quo antebellum to the Western Front.

I think it is not necessary for Germany to occupy Paris.

Belgium isn't being annexed by Germany either, the British would demand its continued independence. Protecting Belgium was, after all, their whole reason for declaring war in the first place.

Belgium could be divided as well. Germany could let Britain to control the West Flemish corridor with NL, while they control the ore rich Wallonia.
 
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