Subject: AH Challenge: Inverted countries (France and Germany) [was: British Isles and Scandanavia] Date: 09 Aug 2001 13:07:25 +0200 From: Thomas Martin Widmann Organization: Aarhus University Newsgroups: soc.history.what-if References: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 I wrote: > lavos@3xl.net (Son Gohan) writes: > > > Thomas Martin Widmann wrote in message news:... > > > So now, in 2001, we have: > > > > > > The Federal Republic of France, whose northern-most province consists > > > of OTL England south of the Severn and the Welland. Its official > > > language is French, but there is a small English-speaking minority > > > in the north. It was a founder member of the EEC/EU. > > > > A federal France?... not likely. The basis of the french republic are > > "liberté, fraternité, egalité" (Liberty, Fraternity, Equality). By > > "equality", the french republic means all departments are equal in law > > in Paris. No autonomous, or "federal like" state. > > You're talking about OTL France. In this TL, the centralised country > is Germany, and there was a revolution there ("Freiheit, > Brüderlichkeit, Gleichheit"). France was not united until the 19th > century, and it is now a federal republic (it was united with the > former communist South France around 1990). Here's the challenge: Invert Germany and France so that the above quote is correct. PoD can be any time after 1000 AD. Points will be added the closer the two countries follow each other's history. If needed, please feel free to invert other countries at the same time, e.g., the Ottoman and the Russian Empires. /Thomas -- Thomas Martin Widmann, Universitetsparken 8, 2., -333, DK-8000 Ĺrhus C Tel.: 7028 4406 * (park) 8942 7333 * (mob.) 2167 6127 * (SDS) 8733 4465 MA stud. (ling-dat); stud.prog.; aktiv radikal; formand/DK-TUG; T4ONF/TK