User blog comment:IndigoOnIceCream/What if France won the Franco-Prussian War?/@comment-4656717-20120516051613/@comment-1187803-20120519163909

It was to late for them if the Prussians won, Austria was still a major enough power that assuming no other country intervened in Germany they might regain their previous leadership of a German Confederation. Or Denmark might try to dominate Northern Germany and would defiantly try to regain Schleswig-Holstein.