Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat View Post
The Netherlands? Washed up sediment of French rivers.

Which means it is French soil, thus technically France.


Seeing as how it is exceedingly cold and especially wet, we grant the semi-amphibious natives autonomy. For now.
You are thinking of the French Speaking Belgians.

The Netherlands (Also known as the Dutch) were a big trading Empire when France was a backwater vassal state of Spain. After a few revolutions and dead aristocrats, France began to stand on its own two feet, and when a short man from Corisa came to lead them in Battle, they became one of the greatest powers of continental Europe.