OOC: Pardon my borrowing your character; it's only to establish the setting for a HRE action:
OOC: Any time my friend. I enjoy reading your story.

IC:
France is not allowed to ally with an nation so exotic!? Opening oppurtunitys into trade routes,money,inventions!?!? All you care about is serving under the Pope! He is great,but to keep an nation together you need peace,money and people, I am obvoiuously not going to find that in Europe!
France may ally with these heathens if she wishes, and the Alliance will be considered to be a great one, if it is found that there are no heretics amongst your ranks.