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FranceScrew - think the opposite of Wank, how badly can you screw over France if they lost the Hundred Years War? At the moment this is basically being powered by a metric ass-tonne of handwavium at the moment since it's more of a random mental exercise until I come up with a decent PoD. Apologies in advance to any French board members.
The general idea is that for one reason or another France is crushed and loses the war, one possibility being Burgundy and England remain allied and keep fighting. The English taking a long hard look at the situation realise that they wont be able to hold onto the whole of France as they have too little manpower, so decide on slicing off some parts for themselves to be added to England directly (Gascony and Calais perhaps?) without any ties to the French crown and follow a scorched earth policy elsewhere in return for giving up their claims on France-proper. Burgundy gets freed from all commitments to France and becomes fully independent picking up a little extra land. What other clauses could England and Burgundy insist upon to ensure that France is as crippled as possible and not likely to be a threat to their neighbouring lands? Aside from Gascony and Calaise what other areas do people thing England might have had a realistic shot at of holding onto?