0
France was the most centralized state long before the revolution. Sure jacobins did excess but they didn't began processus. As nation state France began in XVth century and finished its unification in 1790 with suppression of provinces.
Look what Bourbons did in Spain. Under Habsburg it was just a reunion of independant states, under Bourbons it became a "centralized" state (under Castile laws).
You have idylic vision imo. Monarchies tended to be cosmopolits too and (sometimes) disrespectfuls against peoples.
Bookmarks