I take back what I said before, France did something new. It actualy built and fielded an army just for invading Flanders within a few turns.

I am enjoying a big battle in Flanders right now, my defense was weak as I never expected this attack, luckily however, they right out of movement points just infront of Flanders town, which allowed me a turn to move a garrison from Amsterdam to reinforce the position, which got intercepted, but luckily inrange of my army at Flanders to back me up. Using some tactcs, I managed to disable the French's artillery, and using the field, I turned what was a me = top+bottom versus France into the middle with a West versus East, with Terrain at my advantage.

So my gripe about Ceylon is gone now, because I thought the AI would have just stand there for ages and they would never accept peace, but now... they are fighting.