AH Challenge- Protestant France and Catholic Germany

The challenge is simple, make France a Protestant nation and Germany a Catholic nation. Any POD you want after Martin Luther's publishing of the 95 Theses.
 
It seems like having more successful Hapsburgs and Huguenots (together at last!) would be the way to go here...

Or, on the other hand, how must "Germany" and "France" be defined? Could we have a situation where Northern Germany is not actually part of the country called "Germany", which instead is made up of the southern regions and Austria?
 
It seems like having more successful Hapsburgs and Huguenots (together at last!) would be the way to go here...

Or, on the other hand, how must "Germany" and "France" be defined? Could we have a situation where Northern Germany is not actually part of the country called "Germany", which instead is made up of the southern regions and Austria?

The bulk of the German-speaking lands of IRL history must be made Catholic. A seperate East Elbian Prussian state, or perhaps Schleswig-Holstein uniting with Denmark would be all right, but the point is that significant portion of North Germany have to be converted to Catholicism, while the bulk of France becomes Protestant. However, these countries are permitted to have relatively substantial minorities of Catholics and/or Protestants if so desired.
 
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