I think he suffers from a lot of guilt. To be fair, I’m going to branch off and give two alternative explanations for France’s previous hatred of Germany (asides from the obvious war reasons). Of course, I’ll still link it back to Holy Rome.
One will be based on the fact that Germany is an amnesiac Holy Rome, and the other explanation will focus on France simply attempting to mend his relationship with Germany (a Holy Rome look-alike) after the world wars.
Either way, I’ve noticed a lot of metaphors of France projecting his guilt in communicating his desire to fix things with Germany.
Post coming up tonight!
Ellawritesficssometimes 