France is only 3 regions so it wasn't that hard.
Inorite? My current game, started out as Britain and like 5 years in I just easily invaded France by dropping troops on the north coast, they sent their entire defensive force out, I slaughtered them, and then only had to fight citizens in Paris.
Spain was a bit harder, Poland took years to chisel down, and those city-states fell in their own time, but otherwise. :D