Man I'm so sad right now, any way to get 8 provinces from my PU subject?

You could always beat up whatever crappy nation borders France, and demand they take 9 provinces from France in the peace deal?

Losing French land is the fastest, u can also get claims on France and wait for the event, but this could take forever and they aren't going to like that

Release Gascony, get land from favors, integrate, release Toulouse, get land from favors. You get favors fast cause you’ll be stronger than them

You can either do what u/Tamerleen said (win a war until the AI unconditionally surrenders, give them territory from France, and then take it all back when the truce expires) or just integrate France... which is what I did when I messed up in the same manner.

It takes much, much longer, but it'll work fine.

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Working towards the Angevin Union, finally got all the provinces in the France Area, but I'd fed them to France making them too big for the Act of Union. Is there an easy way to get France down to 8 provinces, basically by getting direct control over them, or releasing another nation from France?

Thanks