The empires were separate from their own countries, so the Spanish empire and Spain were different people, and so was France and the French empire different people.
The empires represented the collective colonies under their own control, so the colonies wouldn't entirely personify their own land, but rather their empires would. So when a colony became independent, the colony personification that wasn't the empire would still live and now represent the new country while the empire would lose control.
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