*insert 1984 reference here*
The trick would be if France didn't exist as a country who would have taken over the land where France was?
I'd been assuming England grabbed it in one of their many Wars with France.
So, you reference an Alternate History Postulate (That France doesn't exist would mean no America) and then you insist on no deviations fro the original history when we try to work out the Scenerio??
That seems... Counterintuitive at best.
Not on CBR. This is where all chat goes.