Portugal and England decided to proclame an unacceptable limitation of trade in their CoT.
Although till then we hadn't been really concerned, we joined the swedish crusade against this shocking decision.
Our problem was to reach our enemies because of a lack of navy. Therefore, we passed through Spain in spite of attrition losses but we lost our best leader just before the dow

.
We didn't have time enough to besiege Portugal homeland before Spain finally breaks the military access they had given to us.
From this moment it was quite impossible to reach Portugal, but we still could reach England... Unfortunately, we thought the Channel had been secured by the swedes but it wasn't and our 35 ships

were destroyed by the english armada (with an army on board

).
That's the moment when Austria decided to dow our alliance, taking advantage of our war exhaustion. the first months were very bad for us and austria took milan, piemonte and then champagne and bourgogne and besieged paris...and portugal could quietly steal our colonies in africa. But then came a better leader for us, and they were beaten away from paris, and champagne and bourgogne returned.
We probably could have make a better deal by remaining on war, but as we have already started to discuss peace, we stopped here.
Now, french economy is to be rebuilt, and some offenses will have to be paid back by traitors
