Map of Pangea with current international borders

And France was literally at the center of the world then. Hurray.

Well it's also in a different shape than it is on a normal world map, which can commonly make something seem larger or smaller

It's supposed to be that way. It's put into the formation the world was so many millions of years ago. Then, what is modern day Europe, would have been on the other side of modern day, Russia.