Geography Now! France REACTION | DaVinci REACTS

[@PaulEcosse]

Ahem, France didn't have a 100 year war with the UK. It had a 100 year war with England. There was no UK in this time period. Scotland was actually an ally of France.

[@larosenoire1411]

On vous adore vous les écossais ( moi je suis en total kiffe ) I love whisky

[@viscount_of_troyes]

Vive l'Écosse nos plus vieux alliés si je me souviens bien ! 🇲🇫❤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@christopheroux2546]

True. The Hundred Years War lasted 116 years 4 months and 15 days (May 24, 1337 - October 9, 1453). They opposed the Kingdom of France, Burgundian state (to fought for the English and the French), the Kingdom of Castile, the Duchy of Brittany, the Kingdom of Scotland, the Republic of Genoa, the Kingdom of Bohemia, the Kingdom of Aragon, the Welsh Rebels and the County of Flanders. Against the Kingdom of England, Burgundian State (fought for the English and French), the Duchy of Brittany (half of the Duchy), the Kingdom of Portugal, the Kingdom of Navarre, the County of Flanders, the County of Hainaut , the Duchy of Luxembourg and the Ghent Rebels.

[@quentinquaranta1290]

Yesss le Auld Alliance!! vive l'Ecosse

[@HYPNO5E41]

I Actually live in a city in france with a scotland culture The City of the Stuart ^^ A part of scotland in the middle of france that show how deep bond was: a city near Paris meant to protect the stuart people since then this city celebrate the scotland culture every year

[@chucku00]

There's a separation between church and state in France since 1905, and "laïcité" (state secularism) is a very strong element of the French political and social life. Matt didn't got it right for once, he wasn't really data driven for what he thought. And in the US the vitality of religions has everything to do with tax exemptions.

[@Yautah]

Also tv evangelism wouldn't fly in France.

[@ryangemellaro2856]

Cool!!🇺🇸🇯🇲🇬🇧🇮🇪🇱🇮🇫🇷🇵🇹🇪🇸🇲🇦🇹🇳

[@siam9551]

Yeah, and teacher or people who matters are not allowed to have religious symbols (Sorry for my english, I'm a young french and I don't speak english very well, I can only read it yet)

[@YangSing1]

An independence referendum was held in New Caledonia on 4 November 2018. Voters were given the choice of remaining part of France or becoming an independent country. Announced in the evening of polling day, the result was 56.4% for maintaining the status quo and 43.6% in favour of independence

[@kylepickus5712]

The art of winery is super fascinating. The taste of wine can change depending on the soil, where it is facing, the incline of the hill, the distance away from each vine plant, and the time of year they are planted. Each time of the year the wine will have a different taste. Those are only a little bit of the determining factors of how to make good wine.

[@kingdarius513]

I always want to learn about stuff like that

[@ryangemellaro2856]

He Truly Said Potty??🤔🧐😂🤣

[@antoinedenis9922]

@@kingdarius513 don't forget the fact that a lot of region in france have wine but each one is specific because of the nature of the soil and the climates wich change a lot depending on the region.

[@gidi3250]

The low population might be because of all the big wars that have been fought in France ex. The Napoleon wars and ww1 and ww2

[@Maxi_94]

Not to mention the black death.

[@darreljones8645]

Actually, by European standards, 60 million is a large country. Most European countries are super-crowded, and are far closer in area to individual US states than the USA as a whole. France, in particular, is a little bit smaller than Texas.

[@Zhest-yu8rw]

@@darreljones8645 Russia has 141 Millions People Turkey 84 Millions Germany 81 Millions France 68 Millions The UK 65 Millions Italy 61 Millions Spain 47 Millions

[@Yautah]

Also, generally the population relate to the size of the country, people tend to have more kids. Contraception plays a part too.

[@rakshas1340]

@@darreljones8645 yeah but compared to the others big european countries and to its size it is low. Look at population density compared to the other giants of Europe : Germany 232.8/Km² United Kingdom 279.95/km² Italy 199.97/km² France 123.28/km²

[@narudayo5053]

Fun fact most french (i'm french) hates Paris and people living in it xD And it's very annoying when people come to visit Paris and say that the city represent how we are, when it's not the case. Paris is probably the last city to visit in France. x) Other fact, we "like" to fight each region about how something should be name (because each region have their own accent or words), the biggest fight from all is surely "Pain au chocolat" or "Chocolatine".

[@viscount_of_troyes]

Moi perso j'aime bien Paris, mais la plupart des parisiens (et je dis bien la plupart car faut jamais faire de généralités) sont juste TELLEMENT CHIANTS. Donc bon je dirais pas que c'est le dernier endroit à visiter, faut quand même y aller une fois, mais je pense que faire le tour des châteaux de la Loire, faire une visite à Strasbourg ou à Brest, ou encore visiter Verdun et nos monuments historiques en général est une expérience beaucoup plus enrichissante. (Et pour le débat pain au chocolat ou chocolatine tu dis croissant :D)

[@Syl75]

It's bullshit this story of "Paris is not France". The Parisian population is made of people coming from every regions of France. The vast majority of the Parisians are provincial "emigrants" or sons/grandsons of provincial "emigrants".

[@Disc0rd83]

@@Syl75 But life in Paris is really different : As a provincial, I made a student placement for month, and I realised that the city changed me slowly...I sometime speak about it with friends and family coming leaving near Paris, they agree. So, even if parisian comes from province (for a part of them at least), they have their own way to be and to live, for the best and the worse, and they are certainly not France.

[@camus25555]

Fact: Paris and its neighborhood drivers must be the worst driver in France ever, toujours un plaisir de les voir arriver dans nos régions sur les routes pendant les vacances /vomi

[@piepiep2368]

Le fameux débat même nos enfants en parleront à leurs enfants 😂😂, sacré parigots bon ça dépend les quels ma grand mère était parisienne et franchement elle était vivable 😂😂😂

[@the-law5065]

15:30 usually when a country reachs a certain level of industrialisation, the population plateaued (families start to have only 2 or 3 kids max) , especially if there is no migration like you can see in the US.

[@fabs8498]

Just for you daVinci if you come in France to visit Leonard de Vinci was living in Clos Lucé castle in the city of Amboise. And the Joconde is exposed in Le Louvres museum in Paris.

[@lionelremy17]

Reasons why france doesn't have that much people are that 1) we "love" war so it implise a lot of democraphic cracks 2) a lot of colonnies in it's history means a lot of peolple leaving for the more exotic places (not really the case anymore but happened a lot in the passed like in actual virginia) but note that actually france as a good demographic evolution for a occidental country

[@manu987nc7]

We still french in new Caledonia 🇫🇷🇫🇷

[@MrApocalyptica83]

what make a good year for a wine is only weather

[@jtbrownjtbrown]

Also. The population dont seem unusual for its size. It seems to be on par with the UK and more than Spain or Italy. Only Russia and Germany has more population in Europe. And dont forget Eurpeans in general have emigrated out of Europe since forever.

[@mecha-sheep7674]

Jacques Brel is not French ! He is Belgian ! Geography Now made a few other errors, but this one irks me the most.

[@lnomsim2]

There actually aren't any state religion in Europe. Most countries are secular. In comparison, the USA have "in god we trust" as a motto, which doesn't really strike as anything secular, plus, having to swear on the bible, being Christian to access some administrative positions, etc... Those are things that don't exist in Europe. I mean, sure, it helps to be Christian, but it won't close doors if you aren't.

[@DevonDaVinci]

The "in God we trust" line was created in the 1950's to counter the "Atheist Commies." Same for the inclusion of "under God" in the American Pledge of Allegiance. I also think this is why we have not had a President with facial hair since the turn of the 20th century. Because Communist were associated with facial hair. In other words, we are dumb AF.

[@lnomsim2]

@@DevonDaVinci I almost forgot the pledge of allegiance. We don't have that either :)

[@sandraghilardi278]

Hum... In France we don't have a sponsor religion at all, don't say that it will really bother French people believe me. And we have a lot of different religions, we are really tough when it comes to our laïcity

[@jeromedelabrosse119]

the vote about new guinea in 2018 was a no so they stayed in france but it was planned from the beggining to be 3 vote, one in 2018 one in 2020 and one in 2022 so far both vote were against leaving france but with the bad gestion of the coronavirus and a shitty president in the last local election the indepednentist party came on top wich mean the last vote might be the independance of the island

[@XxJay71xX]

20:00 ahem, In France there is no "state religion", the constitution guarantee the fact that the french state is "laïque", wich means that every religion is treated the same, and one religion must not interfere with the ruling of the country. Wich explain every problems we got lately, because obviously some people didn't get that memo.

[@piepiep2368]

France it's the first Contry of free religions it's from napoleon, but yes the today France is laïque but at the beginning it's big protectrice of chrétienté and certainly the bigest, French create "the croisades" si it's difficult to speak about fra'ce because there is many France

[@XxJay71xX]

@@piepiep2368 I was reacting to the fact that he said "Europe has state religion" wich is, CURRENTLY, untrue. Not speaking about France of 500 years ago, but NOW, there is NO state religion, as state AND religion are separated since 1905.

[@inwedavid6919]

It mean the church is not allowed to do law like in many state (US, islamic countries) and religion must stay away from power. You can't be elected by the "name of god", you have also to waranty all religion are free to be prayed and atheist are protected (witch is rare in the world).

[@MatthewVanston]

Well France did have a state religion, which was Catholicism, until 1905.

[@XxJay71xX]

@@MatthewVanston that's what I said

[@kylepickus5712]

New Caledonia did not get their independence. Referendum went in favor of remaining.

[@DevonDaVinci]

Thanks for updating me

[@someguysomeone3543]

But there is gonna be a new one in September this year.

[@someguysomeone3543]

@Arch Stanton I don't know, probably to try again for independence?

[@someguysomeone3543]

@Arch Stanton I don't really what's happening there to be honest. I just know that there are gonna be 2 more, and if these 2 last one the opposite happens maybe they'll get their independence.

[@L_Selverne]

@Arch Stanton it's part of the accords they signed with France. The accords say the first referendum must take place before the end of 2018, and then if it is unsuccessful then another referendum will happen in 2 years, and then a 3rd 2 years after that (if a sufficient percentage of the New Caledonian Congress still want it after 2 unsuccessful referendums.) Basically, France are just allowing this to happen to appease the natives and lower tensions which were quite high in the 80s.

[@skaterroulebouboule3289]

Ahhh, il est fort sympathique d'observer son pays à travers les yeux d'un autre. Bonjour de France

[@piepiep2368]

Bonjour à toi aussi cher concitoyen

[@jean-luchochart6960]

Beaucoup de vérités et juste un petit peu de clichés. Comme il faut rendre à César ce qui est à César je dois rappeler que même s'il adorait la France Jacques Brel était belge.

[@piepiep2368]

Oui c'est sur

[@ralphblackledge6586]

A good/bad year in relation to wine relates to the weather for the time the grapes grow.

[@lmn6440]

no it relates to when the wine was made because the taste can improve in the bottle over time

[@tarazed9109]

@@lmn6440 No

[@Mekesi1]

@@lmn6440 No

[@lazyshoggy]

@@lmn6440 Some wines have to be drunk quickly while some others can last many years and need a few to mature correctly. But when you say "X was a good year", it means that the weather was perfect (warm and dry, but not too much) for almost all the wines in the country.

[@lmn6440]

@@lazyshoggy hm I didn't know that, cheers

[@HarJBeRw]

Regarding your question about France's population: -France has historically been a demographic champion. For most of the middle-ages and renaissance France was by far the most populated country in Europe (during the beginning of the hundred years' war, france had over 25 million people and england had around 5) -However if you want to compare any european country's population to others today, you have to take europe's early industrialization into account. These states were the first in the world to industrialize and to subsequently undergo their population transition. What this means: their population increased first, stabilized first, and started to decline first. -A perfect example of this: at its zenith, the second French empire's entire population was only 4 times that of France itself alone. Were that same empire reconstructed today, France's population would be less than a tenth of the overall population -What all this essentially means is that France has been one of the most powerful states in the world in so small part due to its population, and this for nearly a thousand years. For most of that time, europe was one of the most populated (and the densest) areas of the world. It's only recently that places such as the americas, africa, and austronesia have exploded in population, and all around the time european states had already hit their peak population increases. The only exceptions to this are the ridiculous juggernauts that are china and india, which have ALWAYS been the most populous places on earth, it's like those lands are made for making babies -So yes, France population seems quite small today when compared to its oversized history and influence - but that's only because we view it through a modern perspective of dimensions completely alien to most of the world's history

[@madaz952]

Well in Western Europe we don't have a sponsored religion aswell (Especially in France where it's regulated by law since 1905 )

[@idot3331]

I imagine the 'good years' for wine is when the climate was perfect for the grapes to grow, so the wine produced that year is better quality than on 'bad years'.

[@davidbohlin4577]

It´s if the year the grapes were harvested had good weather. To get good quality wine depends on the soil, location and weather.

[@martialg9425]

about wine we can explain it during hours ; but to make it short: idot is right for the sheap wine and wine of the year ( vin de table ) the concentration of sugar of grappes will be linked with sun/rain/soil when you speak of good years you need to add to the environemental factors of the vignoble that year /the time of maturation of the grappes the type of wood barels they are aging in / how long of the aging is due to play in the alcoîsation of the sugar / the polyphenol and "aromatics" componants and "tanin" funs fact for our US friends : Since the 1850 phyloxera episode ( after irish potato or english freinds thought why not french wine ) most of french vines have american roodstok so the best french wine are half American oui oui it's the short version

[@MatthewVanston]

1953 was considered the best year for 20th Century wines.

[@kdjenra5872]

As people previously mentionned, the " year " of wines does play a major difference as weather, natural disaster, various interaction with other bio dome, have a very strong impact on the grapes, and therefore on the taste of the wine. From that you can also add ( to a lesser extent ) the sparse difference due to various workers and WHEN they harvested the wine. If for example the harvest season gets slowed down by torrential rain, the taste of that one year will differ.. it is extremely complex and frankly, most french people ( me included ) don't know much about it.. we all just " live in it " as there are vineyard almost all around ( closest to my hometown is less than 50 km ... and it tastes awful ) On the religion bits, I have to side with the comment below on pointing out that for once, Barbs is off topic. As mentionned, in 1905, french republic introduced the concept of " laïcité " which roughly emphasis on religion being a private matter that had no place in state affairs. At the time, this was mostly driven to push away the influence of the catholic church, especially as they were seeing as political opponent. Today however this concept is somewhat being twisted and overused by a fraction of french politicians, mostly targeting Muslim communities ( the whole veil drama being hilarious if you consider the fact that french women used to were pieces of clothes on their head for years too ) However, the biggest misconception here for me is to say that french people consider themselves catholic ?! France is one of the world's least religious country and French people are globally rather proud of taking a step out of religion and having a state based purely on political principles. Only conservatives call themselves catholic, and in the later years this has only been rising because the right wing part of france sort of build a narrative of " us catholic european vs them Muslim arab migrant ". And in return, many french of migrant descent starts claiming themselves as muslim too ( some of my friends from school are now calling themselves catholic / muslim while when we were at school religion was seen as " old people bullshit " .... But overall I'd say french people are proud to be a secular state, that ( technically and theoretically ) allows for each citizen to believe in their own religion freely, without any of them taking advantage of the state's structure... except alsace and Lorraine ... of course 😂

[@jetaddicted]

The low population aspect has to do with a number of things: Wars have taken their toll of course, and WWI sure did, but apart from that, France is a rather vast country relative to its population, with rich soil, easy to feed yourself there, so when, after the revolution, the people got to enjoy a bigger share of said soil, their income and comfort went up, barring the need for work force to afford a living for the household, opening the perspective of social ascension for the next generations, meaning more expensive education, meaning having less kids in order to provide better for each of them. This alongside a lighter approach to the (often faith originated) duty of procreation, and more focus on fullfilling your goals wether or not they imply founding a family. My two cents

[@nox8730]

About New Caledonia. There has been 3 referundums actually, not one (2018, 2020, 2021). The rule was that if any of those resuslted in a majority asking for independance, the independance was to be granted. All 3 resulted in a NO to independance (52 to 57%) and thus, New Caledonia remains french. One of our key player in the national Rugby team is from there (yes, all black people are not african, hence why we don't use limitative racial boxes like in the USA, as nobody wants them). We have a reputation for surrendering only in the USA. And this comes from our opposition to the invasion of Irak in 2004. Your media started to make up things for propaganda sake. ^^'. The sad part is that considering how WWII was merely the last war to date of an endless list of wars... the American media really relies on the american's ignorance, and they take them for fools. Which is exactly why i like watching videos of americans who are actually curious of learning things. I wish curiosity and open-mindedness would be a thing in the USA. The year matters in wine because of meteorological conditions. Sun, water, acidity of the ground, overall weather, temperatures (every °C counts). It influences the degree of sugar, of juices, the overall taste. 19XX is a good year, because conditions and meteo were perfect and the crop got perfect to make perfect wine. Each wine ages well or not, too. Some wines are better when older (but this is mostly brown alchool, like whiskey), others wines are meant to be drank fast. We have one thing called "Beaujolais nouveau". This is basically a low-alchool wine meant to be drank fast at a particular time the very year it is produced. It is not meant to age at all. The reason why we don't have many people is because of high mortality. Plague epidemics in middle ages, and stuff like that, and countless bloody wars. We lost 800 000 people in WWII, half of it were soldiers (guys), and we lost 1.4 million during WWI, mostly guys (again). It was to the point that there were not enough guys to make babies after the war, or work at the factory, and such. This implied massive changes to the structure of society. Since most young guys were dead corpses, women started to get more edge in society and society changed. You have to know what losing 1 400 000 out of 44 000 000 people is like, especially when all are guys aged 18-40. We lost almost 30% of the 18/27, only Serbia lost more (33%). I get that the USA considers its loses in Vietnam (58 000) or WWII (400 000) to be heavy, but they never reached the point where it made much of a difference to be frank. In 1940, we lost almost 100 000 soldiers in 6 weeks (70 000 on the german side). For 40 Millions people total (yes, indeed, there were LESS french before WWII than there were before WWI. On top of our military losses, the population shrank by almost 10% in 20 years, and France ended up with 1/3 of the german population, which was a call for disaster. American never imagined the idea of actual extermination... We sure do. I already stated why this happened. We fought too hard in 1914-1918 and the demographic consequences were extremely dire. And surrendering in these conditions in 1940 made sense for a country that actually knows what war is like, and doesn't just watch it on TV). My take about religions in France. We don't have a state religion. We are a secular country since 1905. That means that religion can't have any tie with politics or anything, and that no religion is an official one. Religion is not a topic. The reason why the USA, in my opinion, is much more hung onto religions, is because it is necessary for some 'elites' there to control people. Karl Marx wrote that 'religions are opium for the people'. And i ebelieve he was right. THe best way to control someone is to get him on drugs. Most people who claim they are religious in the USA are actually not. They are conservatives that deny the teachings of their religions. Many of the Christ precepts are actually very socialist ^^. But they vote more towards the far right and spout things like 'those who can't buy their medications merely don't want to make any efforts to better their situation, and they deserve their predicament'. This is what i have seen many times on various interviews, at least. They claim that they are religious because they believe what made 'Great America' were guns, faith, and family. Period. To me, religions are already dead. What remains are the excuses some can use to make these convenient tools. I like your way to see things, that is for sure.

[@lessthanevil]

Well, in terms of size, France is about halfway between California and Texas, but has just about their combined population (67 million), meaning France is more densely populated (just about three times more densely populated than Texas). Europe isn’t all that big in terms of area, but it is fairly densely populated, except in Northern Europe.

[@antoinemozart243]

Yes but you can live everywhere in France but not in Tex or California.

[@Bleudesvents]

Devon: "There are not a lot of cultural differences between the UK and the US" Me : "oye mate, what about football?" :p As a French person, I think the Brits are closer to us culturally than they are to the Americans, but this is a question that should be asked to a British person.

[@jtbrownjtbrown]

In Europe, you got a lot more countries that Geography Now has already done to go. Hungary, Bosnia, Netherlands, Norway, Iceland, Romania, Malta, Estonia, Belarus, Georgia, etc

[@HarJBeRw]

Belgium too

[@jtbrownjtbrown]

@@HarJBeRw I did say etc. but if you want me to... and Belgium, Denmark, Montenegro, Latvia, Poland, Czech Republic, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Luxembourg, Finland, Andorra, Monaco, Albania, Portugal, Moldova, Russia, Austria, Armenia, Lechshenstein, North Macedonia, Croatia, Lithuania, and I guess Cyprus.

[@HarJBeRw]

@@jtbrownjtbrown Perfect!

[@Matth_M]

France isn't as populated as it should be because it missed the demographic boom of the early 19th century, mainly because of the Napoleonic Wars which killed over 600,000 French people in total.

[@piepiep2368]

Certainly most

[@maximederak]

The Great War as well

[@siam9551]

Actually, the french people are pissed by the globalisation of english language cause we're a (bit too much) proud people, and the french students starts to learn english at the age of 8. And more of english words are used in french.

[@plumebrisee6206]

Après 60% des mots Anglais sont d'origine Française (Du a Guillaume le Conquérant et le fait que le Français est était langue officielle en Angleterre pendant 300 ans aussi)

[@siam9551]

@@plumebrisee6206 60%, vraiment ? Je savais pas D'un autre côté, il y a de plus en plus de mots anglais qui s'importent en France aussi, les deux langues sont assez mélangées...

[@chewyl5543]

@@siam9551 non vraiment vérifie bien l'anglais. Il y a sûrement 40 à 50 % des mots qui sont français. Nous c'est plutôt du franglish.

[@mfcq4987]

What the actor says about religion in Europe is partly true. There is much less religious proselitism in Europe than in the USA because some churches have been established there for too long to be seriously challenged. But this is false for France where there is no state religion and where the laws of secularism reject religious practice in the strictly private sphere and must not interfere in the public space and again less in republican institutions. Moreover, in Europe, it is much easier to consider certain “religions” as sects that manipulate free will and threaten social cohesion and some may be subject to limitations or even prohibitions.

[@musthang5774]

As a typical proud french student, and I have to say: what you said in your reaction was super cute, it was a pleasure to be seen like that (it's not 100% accurate but anyway doesn't matter 😂) Greetings from from France!

[@SylvesterStaline.]

And France was considered the « China » of Europe for all middle age. When England was 4 million, France was 15. But it begin to change around the 19century.

[@nicolasviard2252]

20 rather

[@amberswafford9305]

English adopted many French words beginning w the Norman conquest in 1066. Afterward, all courtly business was in French w the peasant class speaking Old English. After several centuries of this w both the court French and the po’ folks English evolving as languages tend to do, the upper echelons of England started conducting all their official business in the language of the common folks. The French words became Anglicized or bastardized if you ask any proud Frenchman.

[@plumebrisee6206]

That's why 60% of the English word have Old French origin

[@amberswafford9305]

Plume Brisée That was basically what I said, only you said it much more efficiently. You trimmed away all the fat as the old saying goes. 😁

[@niallrussell7184]

English will rarely use French words in day to day conversation, due to historic origin of royalty/aristocracy speaking only French - educated/cultured in literature/university will use a higher percentage. It's 2 tiers of vocabulary.

[@amberswafford9305]

@@niallrussell7184 We use French words all the time. We just don’t say them like the French do. I still find them annoying and I’m an ocean away. I believe it’s in English DNA.

[@niallrussell7184]

@@amberswafford9305 I guess rarely was bit optimistic, because of common French words like hotel/ restaurant/ brunette/ television, but Old English didn't have a word for literature, but did have turnip!

[@amgeda]

18:18 why ? Because we already have a word for it. Why change for another language ? ^^

[@plumebrisee6206]

France population is low because of the failed demographics transition ,in fact ,we got the worst demographics transition out of every country . From 27 million inhabitants in 1830 to 40 million inhabitants in 1900 . While Russia goes from 4 million inhabitants in 1850 to 150 million inhabitants in 1903 . UK ,7 million inhabitants in 1790 to 45 million inhabitants in 1870 .

[@jpc7118]

In fact, the reason of france having a relatively tiny population is entirely due to the fact she has been the country the most at wars in Europe... Then there have also lots of civil wars too (religions, regionalism ambitions, English involvement etc... )... You have to keep in mind that on about 1500 years of existence, France didn't know more than 500 or 600 years of peace. For example, France and England did a 100+ years war in the middle age (crown problem between 2 french families in fact as the english king was in fact French at those time)... In 1789, when the revolution began, France had more population than Russia and was the most populated country... but 26 years of perpetual wars inside (civil war between royalists supported by English and revolutionarists) and outside (against ALL of Europe paid with English money), it has exhausted France and costed her to loose too much men making it a brake to improve the number of people... Then revolutions in 1830, 1832, 1848, war of 1870 (with Prussia and civil war between repulicans, royalists and communists), WW one where france was the main ally and the main impacted in proportion (7,5 M mobilised on 19 M possible, 1,7M death KIA, 4M injuried in which 1/3 severely, an entire generation of man unable to make children)... Then 2nd WW with about 500k dead, and several hundreds thousands sent in death and concentrationcamps, civil war in 1944-1945 when france was liberated (between Resistants and collaborationnists) ... And I haven't even spoke of the several episodes of Plagues, cholera, spanish flue (1918) where france was one of the most impacted too due to be an obliged crossroad in europe between east and west, north and south etc... Yes, the surrendering thing is a lie done by anglo-saxons to lmower French influence : France has been the most warrior nation in European History and didn't loose too much, but the surprise of the terrific disaster of 1940 is the one which caught the attention of the perfidious Albion and the american neocons (during the irakish affair)... Unfair but so predictable and logic.

[@devanis]

A good year for a wine is gonna amount to the weather the crop that made what you're drinking experienced i.e how much sun there was, how much rain, was there a storm, a drought act all of these things. It's really only matters when you're drinking a "monocépage" or in normal words this means: "a wine made from one crop" if you're wine is a blend of different crop then it tends to matters less. Side note: yes a wine can be too old (it usually taste like vinegar) or too young (feels more like fruit juice then wine then)

[@jeremypintsize7606]

France don't have a state religion since 1905... Since the concordate in the begining of 19th century it was three oficail religions "Catholicism, Protestantism ( Lutherian and Calvinist) and Judaïsm.

[@King_George_VI]

I also learnt ‘omelette du fromage’ from Dexter’s Laboratory. Regarding France’s population... A contributing factor to France’s population is its warring history. It fought all of Europe for a couple of decades under Napoléon’s reign and the devastation of WWI (1914-1918) led to France not gaining back its population until 1931.

[@OCTOPUSILAT]

if I may ..... ... it's : "omelette au fromage" ... Cheers.

[@King_George_VI]

Octopusilat I merely said I also learnt ‘omelette du fromage’ from Dexter’s Laboratory; I never said it was correct lol

[@OCTOPUSILAT]

@@King_George_VI Alright ! ... I just thought that you would have liked to know ...

[@0binnamadeit808]

a good year of wine was a good year for grapes to grow

[@christopheb.6121]

Proportionaly, regarding the population density, France's rate is 3 time higher than the US, so "French USA" would have 900M people 😂

[@elpoiro]

I just discovered your videos and I like so far. In fact French make a lot of babies and was the most populated country for all the middle-age and Renaissance times. It's just that in Europe we have tiny countries which were allways at war with someone. The 7 year war was maybe the first global war and killed 10% of all Europe population, and then First World War, and then World War 2... And also the religious wars, creation of colonies, exodus of people migrating to America etc..

[@LeFeroceLapin]

Hello, now in France there are more Muslims at the mosque than Christians in church. When the French say they're originally Catholic, you have to understand "historically". Many French people from Christian families are non-practicing believers, or even atheists for some of them. Let's say that their interpretation of "God" varies greatly from one individual to another. Just as for the supposed exacerbated protectionism of our linguists diligently to "francize" the English words, these gentlemen haven't been very active for a good twenty years now, that's to say since the advent of the Internet. Indeed, there's what linguists recommend and what we find in real life by the current use of these same English words by the French. And even in the media, where they're nevertheless supposed to be repressed. :)

[@telemachin]

Wait.... Having toxoplasmosis is a typical french thing??????? I had it. ( technically i've got parasitic worm's egg in my brain)

[@hyenalaughingmatter8103]

for european standarts france population is huge :D there are countries with far less

[@kira68200]

the new caledonia situation is ... complicated, the natives, the kanak people are no more th majority of the population thanks to french immigrants within the years, a large part of the kanak want independance or a least part of it but obviously the descendants of the french immigrants don't + there is a major french military navy base (because pacific and china navy rising) and rich, like really rich ore mines (copper for exemple) so ... yeah, difficult to explain in short something like 45% of the population want independance or something close but france dosen't want because money and military interest ps: sorry I'm not that good in english

[@sandre_sandre]

France doesn't have a state religion, it is a strong heritage of the french Revolution. In fact, in France there is the very important principle of "laïcité" (I don't know if there's any translation in other languages, I think "secularism" is quite close in english): any religious belief is tolerated, but is strictly personal and can't interfere in the public life. Laïcité is a central principle in the french Republic, that reinforces the three ideas in the french motto : "Liberté égalité fraternité" (the 3rd one, "fraternity", is quite unique in the founding ideas of a state). You won't see religous signs or sentences in the french state/republic symbols, like the US "in God we trust". Totally impossible in France. At best you'll see symbols like the roman fasces or the phrygian cap, as a reminder of the old Roman Republic, since the french Revolution too. If this idea is from Matt Dillahunty, I'm quite shocked ;)

[@didierlemoine6771]

Europ is more Laïque, we do not hv this kind of thing like "in God we trust" as nobody or a few trust God in Europ :)

[@kaylaazz_m]

France is one of the european countries that had one of the largest populations for most of its history. Arguably all the way up to WW1, but the Napoleonic Wars and French Revolution took its toll on the population for a bit. In 1500, France had an estimated population higher then the ENTIRE Holy Roman Empire. WW1 tanked the French population as up to 13% became some form of casualty of war and didn't really go above pre-1914 levels before WW2, which didn't kill as many French people, but it still had its effects on the population. Today most of the population is old and the population growth will continue to shrink until it is predicted to have the same problem as Japan, which is recessing in population every year. The political stability of France has also been questionable to down right anarchic for 200 years, so population growth is expected to be hurt by that, having gone through 2 empires and 5 republics. So there is why France's population may not be up to your expectations for a 1033 year old country.

[@ryangemellaro2856]

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[@angellove91150]

Well and let's not forget that after WW1 we get sickness that kick in and kill more than the war herself and WW2 still kill 10 millions a little more, so yes that's the reason

[@morglloracle123]

religion wise idk for the rest of europe but as they said most of us are not really verry religious but its is more of a cultural things i mean we got super old church (500/400 year) in every village town ect however i think we are not that much into religion cause it is legit the reason we have been that much involve into wars it is mostly because of religion infact catholic church since our first revolution has always tried to put back the king on power by ploting against us with others contries

[@JetezVotreTelevision]

The best year for a wine depends on many factors, the first one being the climate. I tasted in a winery the cuvée from my birth year. It was bad, very sour, because this year the grapes couldn't ripe properly because of bad weather, I mean, bad for grapes. I was a bit dispointed, but other glasses of better cuvées made me forget about it.

[@adeleg4759]

About religion : there was plenty of competitions between catholics and protestants (masacre of the st barthelemy night) and with islam now. The reason most french don t go to church (faith is different to belonging to an organised religion) is because part of the revolution was against church and since then we have laicity. Meaning than religion is a private thing, we don t talk often about it and we don t ask politics about it either. The state employees have to hide signs of faith during work hours where they represent the country and not a private institution (status of churches in france)

[@1Anime4you]

What the heck my guy. Just because a country is old does not mean it has a large population. I'm from Sweden (which is roughly 1K~1.6K years old and we only have 10.8 million people. The reason you think it is weird that France has a "low" population is that you come from one of the three most populated countries in history.

[@DevonDaVinci]

Europeans spent 1000+ years in their homelands and the population stayed relatively normal. Then they come to America and start breeding like rabbits. It's like Americans were sheltered religious children that got some freedom from their parents and went wild, lol. But, I still find it interesting that Americans population exploded over 250 years, but European countries haven't. I've seen some people say it was do to the wars going on during the countries histories. What do you think caused the population to be where it is now?

[@alucardwhitehair]

Devon DaVinci The main reason the US grew so fast was immigration. Immigration also had the side effect of lowering the populations of emigrant countries, so as the US grew, some growth was sapped from Europe. The main reason for European low population however, is health technology, wealth, and urbanization. Europe is rich and underwent its health revolution early which brought their birth rates down heavily. Adding to this, Europe is very urbanized when compared to the US. Living in urban environments discourages the having of children. This is why despite having the same health technology and more wealth, the US still has a higher birth rate than Europe. This is a massive problem for Europe as almost every country is now declining in population. France is an exception. France is more decentralized similar to the US and their population pyramid looks as though it can sustain healthy growth for the coming decades, which is vital to the economy

[@1Anime4you]

@@alucardwhitehair I believe the same to be the case

[@larryrider6603]

France had lost too much people on WW1 that why we just are 67 millions today

[@wonderlandian8465]

Generally Europe's population for multiple reasons isn't as big as most other continents, a lot of it has to do with the huge number of wars, genocides, things such as the Spanish flu or the potato famine etc etc and in today's Europe the culture has it so that people tend to not have babies till they get older 30s+ thus being the continent with the biggest aging population % compared to young people.

[@mattyice9535]

During Political Geography Segment: Me: It's amazing how varied France is-" Video: "Tahiti." Me: "HaVe SoMe GoDdAmN fAiTh ArThUr."

[@mattyice9535]

@@jmj-bq1py it's a Red Dead 2 reference.

[@MarieLineGabriele]

i assure you that we use hashtag, parking etc and the bacteria thing is bullshit

[@nco1970]

The population is not high due to all the wars, famines and epidemics. For example, the Black Death in the 14th century killed half the french population and it took 3 centuries to go back to the previous number of inhabitants.

[@nicolasviard2252]

A fourth actually. From 25 to 19 or so.

[@Flying-spaghetto]

France no longer have a State religion since 1905. Most french people don't believe in God but some still indentify them-selves to a Catholic heritage.

[@nicolasviard2252]

True. We go to church just for weddings and funerals mostly but deep within most of us still believe. We just reject the hipocrisy of Rome.

[@joaniewaller6504]

Good year wine is because the crops were especially good that year. perfect grapes.

[@MrApocalyptica83]

in france tjeres is no state religion there is even a total serpation bertxeen church and state

[@CorodimaChannel]

France definitely doesn't have a state religion at all, especially when compared to the US where the President swears on the Bible and stuff like that.

[@elkheyou4061]

yup, it is like that since 1905

[@yohking1]

well nowaday (since 1905) when laicity law was made permiting any religion to exitin France as long they respect Republic Law and respect each other, but France was mainly a catholic country

[@mascaret3845]

Jacques Brel was Belgian, not French.

[@windowsrips]

Thank you for the reaction!

[@benjammin9471]

New Caledonia acting similar to Old Caledonia (Scotland)

[@samitovv]

You should react to Geography now Liberia

[@allistaircampbell9282]

3% of black people in France?? That's got to be a joke...😂😂😂😂

[@antoinedubocq2052]

Yes because France isn't only about big cities, most of the population live in countryside so go out of Paris and big cities and you might not see a lot of multiculturalism

[@allistaircampbell9282]

@@antoinedubocq2052 Ethnic statistics are disallowed in France. Where does this figure come from?

[@allistaircampbell9282]

@@antoinedubocq2052 I actually live in the countryside. And we see more black people every year.

[@antoinedubocq2052]

@@allistaircampbell9282 it's true for the statistics I don't really know how he got this information, but the videos itself has a lot of mistakes, but yeah I kind of agree that there might be more black peoples at least as much as peoples from Maghreb, there is more multiculturalism in the countryside than before maybe yes but it's still way less than in cities and I think it's a good thing these peoples move from cities where they stay in communities, to countryside where they might better integrate have more jobs opportunities and also so that the peoples from countryside get to really know these peoples and their culture and stop eating the constent shit and fear spread in the médias

[@nicolasviard2252]

@@allistaircampbell9282 Those are "refugees" being imposed on every city so they do not regroup in one place.

[@cedricvirtual1023]

Speaking of toxoplasmosis, here in France, it is traditional to encourage girls to be scratched to the blood by a cat before even thinking of becoming pregnant. You can think of this as a primitive vaccination technique. Because if they have not been, they will have to be very careful and not approach cats during their pregnancy. Cats are cute, but they are the main vectors of toxoplasmosis. This results in playing with a cat until it scratches you, which usually takes 5 minutes.

[@solveiglecosaque9783]

No Nouvelle Calédonie still French

[@Qwazerty-x4z]

About the English language in France : I'm from Bretagne (Brittany) and I can say that the Breton language is in a bad situation : during the history we use to be not French so we talked Breton. After that, we talked french, and the more we talked french, the more Breton language was disappearing. An if the Breton language disappears, a part of the Breton culture disappears. For me this example is the same for English and French language and the reason why we tend to not let English be a big part of the daily life.

[@robtint]

What make a good wine ? : The soil, the climat, temperature variation etc etc ... their is a lot of factors who have an effect on the taste of wine, for exemple a really hot summer may increase the concentration of sugar ( fructose ) in the grappes, more sugar = more alcohol, too much sun = not drinkable wine, not enough sun = grappes juice. Another exemple, a soil rich in limesoil generaly give the wine some harsh taste ( like the wine from Bourgogne ). So a good year for wine is year when the global conditions were great for making wine

[@Smulpaap]

Jacques Brel is from Belgium.

[@tancredeadnot5276]

67M is huge to EU scale. Also France has the highest average of baby birth of the EU. French population was almost always the biggest of the western part of the continent :)

[@lexywackess]

I'm sorry that i'm not on point in english for wine talk. But, good years are said because mainly of the weather etc, it will change the quality of the grape and so the quality of the wine. And for the perfect time to wait for a wine to be at his best, it depends on the wine (the grape type and the style it was made). For a bordeaux for exemple, it's quite dry and gets rounder with time, the opposite for a bourgogne. All wine that are made to be kept longer will take on more flavours after some years, but it also depend on how you like your wine. Let's add to that some really old wine are not to be drink anymore, the cork may have collapsed a bit and then the wine will be awful. it's more of a collection piece.

[@max_fluffy_le_chien]

France has a very large population compared to its size, it is not a story of war. The United States has a very high population but compared to its size it is normal. But European countries have the highest number of inhabitants per square kilometer. The population density of European countries is very high. But in the Middle Ages the average population of European countries was around 20 Million.

[@MrHugodu22]

for the millésime (year of the wine basically) it will depend on how the season were, a cold winter followed by a "sweeter" spring and a hot summer will result in rich yet strong grapes. btw great vid dude !! P.S. : we don't have a state religion, I mean our president doesn't have to take an oath on sacred texts...

[@RotgerValdes]

There was a competition between different confessions in Europe a.k.a. the Thirty-Years War. And some other slightly less bloody conflicts.

[@jpc7118]

For wine, it's climate and particular weather of a year which will make it a good or a bad year... Generally a dry summer with lots of sun is a must for wine... But it's very complexed in fact... soil, location, way of working and preparing it have also an importance.

[@tuveudusuc]

Jaques Brel was from belgium

[@ulfarwalker3777]

hello, i will try to answer to your question 12:10 why the years of the wine is matter? Before you will farm graps you can know if you years was good or not because of the weather you had and the impact it cause the the graps of raisin. this is not the only thing about years of the wine but this is the one that matter the most. making wine is a long and complex proces. In france the way we make wine is changie from one village to another

[@maelguimberteau4142]

For thé wine translate my message because it’s to long : la qualité d’un vin dépend de la qualité du raison. Pour fair un bon raisin il faut avoir de bon sol fertile car le fruit prend le goût et le caractère de la terre de la où il cultivé ( c’est pour cela que certains terrains viticoles sont vendus pour des millions parfois). Il y aussi un gros travail pour récolter au moment optimal pour ne pas avoir un mauvais vin. Cela dépend aussi de la température de la cave où les barriques de vin sont affinées. On dit que certaines années sont mauvaises car parfois il a trop plut ou pas assez ce qui varie le goût et la qualité. Parfois les récoltes sont mauvaises car elle sont détruites par la grêle qui détruit le fruit et de les parcelles.

[@kam7r882]

there is no "state fate" in france

[@Aity7]

For a wine, the quality depends a lot on the weather during the year. If you're interested in french history, there is big 3 parts video from Fire Of Learning. The first part lasts one hour : kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKK3mnxvirV8m7s

[@juangill8086]

Too mouch wars ..less people

[@camus25555]

Horses? don't know in which region but never ate or heard people talking about that in Brittany and i've been leaving there for ever.

[@Rohan-yz3mp]

Geography now Russia!

[@grokaillou8953]

Bonjour video très intéressante !!

[@charlieharvey8343]

Pleaseee react to: Meet Karl Pilkington

[@michaellorde7836]

Still part of france

[@ermanb2575]

tres bonne video merçi

[@Rivv96]

The idea of good or bad year when it comes to wine simply boils down to the weather and the quality of the grape crops that year. Grapes being a very fragile fruit, its quality can easily vary depending on the weather (all things being equal).

[@hervevdb]

Climat is the key of wine. Rain, sun and wind change the taste of the wine

[@julien616]

About the wine , it depends on the climate in a specific region

[@promeneuzivotu117]

👋(i'm first!)

[@Fuilleverte]

Come on almost every one knows "vous les vous coucher avec mois ce soir" => Lady Marmalade.. means "will you sleep with me tonight"

[@OCTOPUSILAT]

if I may ... "voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir" ... ;-)

[@Fuilleverte]

@@OCTOPUSILAT You certainly May. I've always been a poor Speller, but you got the inference in any case. Thank you

[@OCTOPUSILAT]

@@Fuilleverte ... 'just trying to help ! French is a tricky language ! It's even difficult for french people ! ... just for exemple ... "moi" means "me" ... and "mois" means "month" ... Take care.

[@Fuilleverte]

@@OCTOPUSILAT lol. I only took 1 year of latin back in High school. So my french is secondary as a Romance Language.

[@OCTOPUSILAT]

@@Fuilleverte ... I have no excuse ! ... I'm french ... (obviously)

[@gogyoo]

23:45 and you came to help us during WW1 too

[@citizenb9318]

no state faith in France since 1905...