From: jwkenne@attglobal.net   
      
   On 2014-09-24 22:17:59 +0000, Michelle Bottorff said:   
      
   > Jacey Bedford  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 23/09/2014 23:35, Michelle Bottorff wrote:   
   >>> but he isn't French, he's German.. (Burgundian,   
   >>> whatever, same part of the world -- different history.)   
   >>   
   >> Huh?   
   >> Want to check out an actual map?   
   >   
   > It's an alternate history.  Most of what is now Germany is nominally   
   > subject to the family line of Burgundy.   
   >   
   > Burgundy the place is ruled by some other family, who are themselves   
   > subject to the family line of Valois, which currently rules France and a   
   > bunch of other places.   
   >   
   >   
   > "Germany" wouldn't have existed yet in our world either, of course.   
      
   The Hohenzollern German Empire and its successor states wouldn't have   
   existed. "Germany" has existed for above 2500 years.   
      
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