PC: Keep Burgundy Independant?

Is there any way to make the Burgundy survive as an independent state at least to say 1800? And what effects might this have on France and Germany? (and heck, what might an independent Burgundy mean for the area's it controlled and influenced?)
 

Razgriz 2K9

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Easiest way possible, Charles the Bold has a male heir.

Charles got too ambitious and too greedy, too early, and he wound up picking a fight with, among others: Archduke Sigismund of Austria, the Swiss Confederates, Duke Rene II of Lorraine, and King Louis XI of France.

Because he picked a fight with generally all his neighbors, he died, and since he died without a male heir, his possessions wound up in the hands of his nineteen-year old, unmarried daughter Mary, who now became the objective that would tip the favor of dominating the Burgundian lands and become the dominant power of Western Europe (OTL won by the Hapsburgs)

Now all of this could be avoided if Charles had a male heir before he gone and get himself killed at Nancy, or alternatively, though less likely he could be more successful in the Burgundian Wars.

Another possible idea (one I will admit is shamelessly ripped off from the Divergences mod from Victoria II) would involve continued Burgundian support for the English after the Treaty of Arras in 1435, and keep the French Valois down long enough for the Burgundians to focus more on Germany.
 
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The problem with a surviving Valois-Burgundy is that if Burgundy does survive and the Valois line still dies out than burgundy just becomes France + the low countries. Granted that this french state itself could be radically different from OTL France. Unless you have the main Valois branch live or a new dynasty take over to reject the claim of potentially foreign kings your gonna run in to problem of Burgundy not being Burgundy anymore.
 
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