Valdemar II
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A major reason for the British to oppose a French southern Netherlands, was to avoid a French control of the Flemish coast. A solution would be to give significant parts of those coast to another country. So maybe giving Antwerp and the Flemish coast up to lets say Ostend to the Dutch republic could make this acceptable for the British.
I must admit I find the trade unlikely, while Austria wanted to trade the Austrian Netherlands for a closer territorium, Parma wasn't/aren't worth Belgium. It's simply too much to trade for too little and I can't especially not see it happening, while the Habsburgs are holding up the Bourbon regime.
Parma had in 1770 400 000 inhabitants that's less than a seventh of what the Austrian Netherlands had (in 1790 the Austrian Netherlands had 3 million inhabitants). While Parma are rich and rather well developed, it aren't more developed or richer per capita than the Austria Netherlands are. If we want to find a Habsburg enclave of similar size Breisgau are more or less the same population size.
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