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1)Ally the Ottomans.
2)Declare war on the HRE with all the HRE and the Ottomans on your side.
3)Speed 4.
4)Slam head on keyboard until The Ottomans have won the war for you.
5) disband the HRE
6) ?????????
Find a time when the emperor is weak or distracted to attack them. Or, since you are France, just kill them all.
In my recent France game they joined the HRE as did all of Italy other than Venice whenever I bordered them. I ended up sieging down Vienna and taking 25 warscore ducats five or six times in rapid succession, not quite as lucrative as the Bank of Ming but the Bank of Habsburg was pretty quick to cycle and very happy to keep defending HRE members. Shortly after I just dismantled the HRE.