Quote Originally Posted by The Lemongate View Post
In fact, before Philippe Auguste II de France, there is no such thing as France, both as a concept or as a political entity. The Kingdom of the Franks is a powerful feudal entity whose power-base is mainly in the north and whose influence waxes and wanes depending on the strength of its ruler, much like the Holy Roman Empire, albeit with a different form of political structure.
Having played EU III recently, France is a patchwork of Duchies and Kingdoms at game start. And that's 1399.

But I'm willing to embrace anachronisms to make KotF fun.