User blog comment:IndigoOnIceCream/What if France won the Franco-Prussian War?/@comment-4656717-20120511083945

If the French had got their shit together, I think they might have been able to actually win alone. And, with France winning, the Southern German states (Bavaria, Wurrtemberg, Baden) may have swapped sides and joined the French.

The Prussians would have stil been frisly dominant in Northern Germany, but the North German Confederation would probably have broken up. Without a unified Germany, the World Wars would not have occurred, and if they had; very differently.

And, of course, the Bonaparte dynasty would have continued in France.