Oh, and a very important note from my chat with Scooter this morning that I forgot to write in the summary: CivFr is gifting Ivory to the Germans! According to Scooter, this means that they have had to fight unexpected War Elephants (ha! What goes around comes around)
This is all if we are willing to trust Scooter's word, of course. We should definitely confirm this in the trade screen this turn. If so, I would almost be willing to give CivFr peace just for their promise to continue supplying Ivory to the Germans.