Drake, I played France today not Pibe
Not a bad session for France. We got a nice province from Netherlands (one already converted to the reformed religion), I think we got some new understanding with Spain and Netherlands, we built some new manufactories (not a lot, but at least we are in the european level now -BTW this is a game with very few manus, I guess we had got a lot of wars

), and -most important- our income grew in a very significant manner and thanks to 2 events, our inflation went 10 down. So although France is not rich, at least we are not anymore poor, at least almost 300 income.