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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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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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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:
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Another guy who will have his own event chain.

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… 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 in 1337 Anjou was still a county and it was only elevated to a duchy in 1360
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Also the Count in 1337 was a member of house de Valois who will one day become King John II of France therefore it makes more sense to use one of the coas of the Valois-Anjou branch as standard flag of the tag rather than use the coa Capet-Anjou branch(even if it was adopted only after the elevation to Duchy)
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The post 1470 is better imo since the first one could be used for a County of Valois tag
 
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I really like how the ruler and his background looks, it has went through a lot since first tinto talks. Also, will there be some event with the battle of Crécy, because Bohemian king and of HRE died there, and he famously said "Toho bohdá nebude, aby Český král z boje utíkal." Or in english "God forbid that the Czech king should flee from battle."
 
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I was looking at the Gabelle and shouldn’t it have a negative to the peasant estate satisfaction? It seems only positive when it says it hurts relations with the peasants especially when it’s taxing them quite a bit more.
 
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It says leaders of the “Christian” faith here. Shouldn’t it be “Catholic” faith? Since Christian is just all of them and it should be specifically Catholics that are irate since they don’t want to give things up? I doubt Protestants would be irate xP
 
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This all looks fantastic, I really can't wait to play the game! My first game will definitely be France or England :)

Some feedback regarding the writing. I'm sure all of the flavour text, wording, descriptions etc. are still work in progress and will be subject to QA, but I think it needs to be said that the English in a non-negligible portion of the writing is poor. There are many places where words are missing, grammar is wrong or full sentences that are very long, or don't make much sense, or are difficult to read. There really needs to be a native speaker/professional english writer, that goes through all of the text if possible.
I was going to list examples, but there are too many, everything needs to be checked. I'm more than happy to make a list if it would be helpful.

I'm writing this because exactly the same thing was true of Wednesdays TT.
 
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A bit disappointed.

Yet another building that you can only build if you select the right option on a specific day. These should be things you can decide to build whenever you want once the prerequisites are met, rather than events that are use it or lose it.

Yet another event (the French wars of religion) that really should be a generic event has been magically made to only apply to France.
 
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@Pavía in 1337 Anjou was still a county and it was only elevated to a duchy in 1360
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Also the Count in 1337 was a member of house de Valois who will one day become King John II of France therefore it makes more sense to use one of the coas of the Valois-Anjou branch as standard flag of the tag rather than use the coa Capet-Anjou branch(even if it was adopted only after the elevation to Duchy)
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The post 1470 is better imo since the first one could be used for a County of Valois tag
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Just fixed the country rank, good call, thanks.
 
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Will the Huguenots leaving for Brandenburg/Prussia and South Africa be an event on France's side (letting them leave or expelling them) or on the German/Dutch side (inviting them to resettle)?
 
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Who's the overlord of Maine then? In 1337 it was still ruled by King Philip himslef since he was Count before becoming King it would make more sense if it was a direct subject(fief) of France
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The ruler is John, son of King Philip VI, as he was bestowed with that title in 1332, along with Normandy and Maine; all these 3 territories are subjects (appanages) of France.
 
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