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Tinto Flavour #30 - 4th of July 2025 - France

Hello, and welcome one more Friday to Tinto Flavour, the happy days in which we take a look at the flavour content of Europa Universalis V!

Today, we will take a look at France! Let’s start without further ado:

The death of King Charles IV without a male heir in 1328 marked the end of Capet rule over the Kingdom of France, resulting in the coronation of King Philippe VI de Valois, a relative from a former cadet branch of the dynasty. However, it has been contested by King Edward III Plantagenet of England, on the pretext that while the Salic Law of France forbids the passing of the throne to a female successor, it does not forbid the inheritance through a female line. As the son of Dame Isabelle ‘the She-Wolf’ Capet, the last living sibling of King Charles IV, King Edward III might claim the throne of France as his birthright.

The tension over both countries has worsened over the past years, as our hospitality of the exiled young ruler of the Scots, King David II de Bruce, has enraged the English court, whose Balliol puppet seeks to seize that crown. As a response, King Edward III has also recently granted refuge to Sire Robert d’Artois, who escaped calls to face trial in Paris for his attempts to seize the County of Artois. There are rumors that Sire Robert is even encouraging the disgruntled King Edward III to press his claim to the throne of France militarily.

Should relations continue to deteriorate towards a boiling point, King Philippe VI may require the support of his subjects, although more than one ambitious Appanage hailing from the old royal line may seize on the opportunity to demand greater privileges, proving a greater threat to the stability of the crown than any invading claimant. The upcoming years will be consequential for the future of France, having to face the external English menace and the proud French lords at once. Will the country fall to the fake pretenders, or emerge as the main power in Europe?
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A cool new feature of EU5: We have a ‘fixed DNA’ system, so certain important historical characters have their faces pre-scripted to look as close as possible to their historical portraits. We have already implemented this for important starting historical rulers, such as Philippe VI of France, and other important characters that can appear via event, e.g. Martin Luther.
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As usual, please consider all UI, 2D and 3D Art as WIP.

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France is already the biggest country in Europe in 1337, so I’ve opted to share with you 3 zoom levels today. In the second one, you can see how the forts look like at this moment.​

The diplomacy of France is quite interesting at start:
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Some of the subjects are regular vassals, while others are a unique subject type, Appanages:
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As its the starting situation of its government:
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The French Nobility is a bit powerful, isn’t it?​

These are the starting unique reforms and privileges of France:
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Its flavour-named Parliament, the États Généraux:
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A bunch of unique advance, of which I’m going to show one per age, as usual:
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Advance The Philosophes.png

Advance Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite.png

As a Tier 1 country, France has a proper number of Dynamic Historical Events:
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Here you have some of them:
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Event Ordinance of Normandy.png


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This event will start an event chain about the fate of Étienne Marcel, Provost of Paris…

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And this one another event chain about Bertrand du Guesclin.

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France may also suffer a unique disaster in the Age of Reformation, the French Wars of Religion:
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More actions and events will pop up after some time.​

It will also open this Reformation Edicts, a unique Law for France, as one of the means to resolve its disaster:
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And here are some more events for the late game:
Event Richelieu.png

Another guy who will have his own event chain.

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Event Versailles.png

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Event Rousseau.png

… And much more, but that’s all for today! Next week we’ll have a Tinto Maps Feedback on Monday, a Tinto Talks on Wednesday, and Tinto Flavour on Friday:
  • Tinto Maps Feedback for South East Asia.
  • Wednesday -> Tinto Talks about Tonalism, the new Mesoamerican religious group.
  • Friday -> Tinto Flavour about the Aztecs.
And also remember, you can wishlist Europa Universalis V now! Cheers!
 

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Pavía said:
It's a unique feature. Maybe in the future we can take a look at adding something similar for Georgia. ;)
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I see that if the ruler of an appanage dies without heir, the lands goes back to france.
Did you notice if the black death kills many characters and rulers, and so destroys many of france appanages?
 
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Pavía said:
… And much more, but that’s all for today! Next week we’ll have a Tinto Maps Feedback on Monday, a Tinto Talks on Wednesday, and Tinto Flavour on Friday:
  • Tinto Maps Feedback for South East Asia.
  • Wednesday -> Tinto Talks about Tonalism, the new Mesoamerican religious group.
  • Friday -> Tinto Flavour about the Aztecs.
And also remember, you can wishlist Europa Universalis V now! Cheers!
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Rather odd to include the South East Asia map feedback instead of the Central American one given the perceived theme of next week.
 
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I may be wrong but "recettes générales" doesn't "ring" any bell, and quickly googling it doesn't returns anything. Did you mean "fermiers général" ? I know french scientist Lavoisier was one of the late fermier général and the description of the office seems to fit.

Also wondering if these kind of advances shouldn't be made slightly more powerful eventually, but at the cost of angering your nobility / unlocking the bonus in the form of a priviledge that will anger your nobles or something like that.
 
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Will France keep the same flag throughout the game? Historically speaking, the blue flag was abandoned in favor of white, which had a special significance in monarchical symbols. White is still present on the country's current flag. (No white flag jokes, please :cool:) .
 
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Idle America said:
If France has not retaken its lands by a certain date, will there be an event for a schizophrenic divinely-inspired peasant girl to show up? And will it be possible to avert her historical fate?
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Jeanne d'arc was mentioned in the HYW dev diary of this wednesday
 
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In the France feedback thread, Pavia agreed that changing the names of Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte, Arques and Fecamp to Valognes, Dieppe and Harfleur respectively, as they were far more important cities.

Here however, they still have their old names, is this an error or were they not changed? I would argue especially in favor of Fecamp->Harfleur, as it was at the start of the game the main port of France in the region

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/tinto-maps-3-france-feedback.1693702/post-29746802
 
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titan.bevel said:
The death of King Charles IV without issue

Shouldn't it be rather "without a male heir" ?
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"The King died without an heir!"
"Meh, he sucked anyway."
"Yeah, I'm glad he's gone."
"You know what? Screw royalty! They're all inbred pigs!"
"Let's try a republic, instead!"
 
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Rousseau was from Geneva, an allied city-state of the Swiss, and his views were heavily shaped by coming from a place with citizen suffrage and no monarchy. Both On Education and The Social Contract were written in Geneva, not in France, and he signed all his works with "Citizen of Geneva" because that's where he was from, where he went back to, and the place that defined him. Will the Swiss get events for him as well?

Edit: Looks like he wrote them while in France, then left for Geneva in the same year. Oops. Question still stands: does Geneva/the owner of Geneva get any content pertaining to Rousseau?
 
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If it could be of any help : René Descartes.
The cardinal de Richelieu.
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Fixed the first; we're keeping the second, as being most widely known in English as such.
 
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Pavía said:
Eventually, we'd like to give all important characters a proper iconic look and outfit, but please consider that we have thousands of historical characters in the game, so we need to go by tiers of relevance, as this is way less important than making our 3D characters to look good in general terms.
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Maybe you could make a generic outfit for cardinal characters?
 
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