About A blunted sickle and France fights on...
In Shrek when the ogre and Donkey first see Duloc huge castle, Shrek wonder loudly whether Lord Farquad is "compensating for something". Well seems that we French have, too, something to compensate... not a tiny prick, but the horror and shame of Vichy. That, and also the fact that the 1940 defeat not only was the worse since Crecy and Azincourt half a millenia before, but also it was a nazi-wank and perfect case, of everything going perfectly. Finally, greatly helped by the supreme dumbness of Generalissime Maurice Gamelin, which brain was terminally ill with Syphilis - no kidding.
Recently on the FFO forums somebody wrote a vignette on Andre Corap, the general commanding the 7th Army that was guarding the Ardennes and was crushed by the sickle cut. Before the war Corap was all too aware the defensives lines on the Meuse were fucked up, so he went to see Gamelin for some reinforcements.
And Gamelin told him, straight in the eyes
"La Meuse, ça ne m'intéresse pas"
"I'm not interested by your sector, La Meuse. I don't care about it." That exchange happened in spring 1940, exactly two months before the Germans broke out at this exact place.
The point I'm trying to make is that the authors of FFO are all too aware of that "revenchist" trend - of too much enthusiasm and that feeling "we have to clean the shame of Vichy".
Well,
They have stated many times they don't want to hear about it and are taking special care for that NOT to permeate their work. They are carefully war-gaming every major battle so that it does not become a French wank, particularly in July 1940.
For example, last stand in the Metropole happens in banyuls, near the spanish border, on August 7, 1940. I can tell you the varied options were war-gamed and the final scenario that was retained was not a wank or best case. That would have been a pocket around Marseille resisting until mid-september 1940.
More generally, the major trend of France staying in the war, even with a broken back, is that it greatly helps the British until the USA entry in the war late 1941. Kind of "half" of a major power trying to help. The most imediate impact is on the North african theater (the italians are doomed long before the AK) and in the Mediterranean (where the French navy makes a big difference)
The FTL authors certainly take a lot of fun and pleasure writing that saga but it stops there. This is not an avenge Vichy fantasy.