Asia dwarfs France: about 44,580,000 km² km² against 635,064 km² km². At true size Asia is about 70.2× larger — the whole of France fits into Asia roughly 70 times.
The old Mercator map treated both about equally (1× vs 1.9× inflation), so at least their relative sizes were preserved — even if both were drawn at the wrong absolute scale.
France fits 70× into Asia.