Ethnic Origins of the French

[@Pontus-dz2xh]

In Greek, the word used for France comes from the word for Gaul, "Γαλλία"(Ghallia). And the people are called Γάλλοι (Ghalli). So basically, the Greeks still call France Gaul.

[@elbentos7803]

indeed France is still named Gallia in only three languages ; - Greek, - Latin (still used in Vatican administration and in the title "primat des Gaules" refering to the archbishop of Lyon, note here the plural form) - Breton (Bro-C'hall = Gaul - bro being a prefix often used before naming countries); not even welsh or cornish use the word Gaul or Gallia anymore

[@japaris75]

Modern Greeks call the "French Republic" "Gaulish Democracy"

[@douvik8615]

And what is the word for the french language ?

[@Pontus-dz2xh]

@@douvik8615 The word for the French language is "Γαλλικά" (Ghallika)

[@dpjb78]

A bit like Germans who still call my country Kingdom of the Franks (Frankreich) LOL !

[@alexrossouw7702]

My surname is Huguenot with a Dutch twist. Greetings from South Africa.

[@thorstenfinke2751]

Wow. Your name and the fact that you are from South Africa tells a lot of your families migration! :)

[@vastpeople9623]

@WE WUZ VIKANGS!!! n shiet. "Everything mighty must come to an end" Masaman. From the get-go your ancestors and you should have fought your heads off for discrimination of the natives, but you benefited and watch over denigration and dehumanizing of the majority. Not today but eventually justice will happen under a rough government in waiting.

[@ComarBdF]

Hello cousin ! Marc Rousseau

[@LB_die_Kaapie]

Yup lots of South Africans Afrikaaners(also coloureds) have French ancestry but the names were changed to the Dutch version in South Africa.

[@theoneandonlylordfarquaad3361]

Alex Rossouw I have Huguenot ancestry too. I’m an American

[@dovienya737]

personaly i would like to hear more about the occitans.

[@naelaoun3311]

They are songs in Occitan on KZbin

[@rayanstar7]

Language and culture almost completely disappeared you’ll only hear it at retirement homes

[@greenwood-1426]

@@rayanstar7 you are right im from Ariège when i was kid old people wouldn't be speaking french to each other. Nowadays its all gone ..

[@pescairedelua5276]

I am an occitan speaker i can answer all your questions

[@joeygb6805]

@@pescairedelua5276 why did you stop speaking occitan?

[@andres6868]

The French have three main sources for their origins: The Gauls (who were Celts), the Romans who occupied it for about five centuries, and the Germanic Franks who replaced the Romans around 400 AD. The fact that French is a Romance language is an indication that the Roman contribution might be the most important one.

[@Alex_Plante]

Ceasar divided Gaul into 3 regions: 1) Aquitaine in the South-West; 2) Belgica in the North-East and 3) Gaul proper between the two. The Aquitaines were essentially Iberians who had adopted much of Celtic culture and the Belgae were largely Germans who had also adopted much of Celtic culture. Gauls also lived in Northern Italy, which at the time was called Cisalpine Gaul. Only the peninsula was considered to be Italy. The Southern part of modern Germany, as well as Austria, Switzerland and Czechia, were also populated by Gauls. I suspect that very soon after the Romans conquered Gaul, the Latin language became dominant in the cities as well as civil government. Most of the wealthy landowners were probably also Romans or became Romanized. The Gauls probably adopted Latin in a way very similar to the way the Irish adopted English. After centuries of domination by the Romans, they essentially adopted Roman language and ways and became Roman. Apparently Gaulish held out up until the Middle Ages in isolated regions of the Auvergne.

[@fablb9006]

Andres Karel you forget what is probably the most important one, which is the pre-celtic one, the population that was here before the celts come from central Europe from north-eastern France. The pre-celtics were most descending from neolithic famers, genetically close to iberians. There is one cultural remain of them which is the nowadays Basques, but genetically speaking most french people from south of Loire river have a high percentage of « iberians DNA » which is actually the native population that live here for millenias. Gauls were invaders just like franks or romans were.

[@EthnHDmlle]

Linguistically Romantic, genetically Germanic. Edit: Germanic & Celtic www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2735096/#!po=1.94805 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/core/lw/2.0/html/tileshop_pmc/tileshop_pmc_inline.html?title=Click%20on%20image%20to%20zoom&p=PMC3&id=2735096_nihms132060f1.jpg

[@davidrosner6267]

@@Alex_Plante I remember reading about how Caesar divided Gaul into 3 regions in Latin class.

[@alcare7755]

Actually the Romans didn't contribute a lot to French ancestry. They influenced them a lot culturally, but they were not numerous settling in Gauls. So they were quickly absorbed by natives. This was already guessed by historians and archeologists. Now the last genetic study on the French (The genetic history of France) confirms this. Although the methods of this study are not perfect, they give a very decent idea of the French. The same in Iberia. Contrary to what people often say, the Romans didn't contribute a lot to the genetic makeup of Iberians. We don't have to mistake cultural influence for genetic influence.

[@pitshard6079]

Living in cultural Occitania, I can tell that Occitanian dialects have complitely been replaced by French. Though, its culture seems to remain a little, with accents/cuisine/historical city names/expressions etc. , we can even chose to learn the regional Occitan dialect (Nissard) in my school for example. It's good to have a common language but it's kinda sad that most of the others disappeared.

[@augustuscaesar8287]

Good ol' lenga d'oc. I learned French in middle school (I'm American) and ended up being really good, et Je peux encore parler en Français. Later in life, I became interested in some of the lesser known romance languages, some of which are dead, like Dalmatian, but I'm drawn to Catalan and Occitan. Catalan seems like Spanish spoken like French, and Occitan seems like French spoken like Spanish. Idk, I know less about Occitan then Catalan... Parlo una mica de Catalan també... Cap occità.

[@LanguedocProvenceGascogneMIDI]

Very interesting, objective, well done!

[@ouafallouz]

France is the soul of Europe: a complex mixture of latin, germanic and celtic influences.

[@Brzcastas]

No, it's not. Soul is gone.

[@elbentos7803]

@@0mkaktus true, few people of slavic origins, except among the descendants of XXth century polish, russians and czech migrants/refugees. (And funnily enough, two queens of France - Anna Iaroslavlna (ca. 1050) and Maria Leczynska (ca. 1730)).

[@wildearth3992]

plentyness Hum no dumbass

[@nickmtp8824]

@plentyness Why are you so angry at French? You are jealous or what ?

[@wildearth3992]

plentyness No. Thanks you we don’t any anymore black

[@benjaminklass5118]

Many Afrikaners in South Africa have French Huganot ancestors. This explains surnames such as Du Preez and De Villiers. Also explains place names such as Franschhoek (French corner) and why wine is a big deal in SA.

[@french-9743]

I suppose "Du Preez" is a transformation of "du Près" or "Duprès". A transformation that dates perhaps back to the time when French Protestants settled in Holland. Perhaps also this name transformation dates back to the South African era to make pronunciation easier.

[@elbentos7803]

As a matter of fact, wine is a big thing in South Africa, because it's the only place in Africa (beside Maghrib) where local climate allows grape to grow and mature properly. Fun fact : while in Saint-Helena island, Napoléon asked for south african wine.

[@jacquesfrancois4275]

French Hugenot squad represent

[@nestpascamillekazeyquiveut9984]

Thanks for that little anecdote!

[@davidvanniekerk3813]

It is true Benjamin Klass. The Huguenots who landed in ZA was less or about 300 ppl. in circa 1688. I'll have to see if the Cape had a democratic government at that time. There was the "Heemraden" that was lected by the colonist. ("Whites"). In numbers they were not so big. About 45% of the colonist was form the German States. French influence was very big. If you read books of the old Huguenot's and how they kept alive there language despite being refuges in a Dutch colony. After about 100 years the languages was gone. (1788). During the first(1795) of second(1806) annexation of the Cape the French Government send a fleet to help the Dutch against the English. The French fleet landed in Saldanha bay. They didn't have a map of the Cape and lost there way to Cape Town. At that stage Hollands biggest enemy was the French and not England. The "Holland" has a border with France. In 1988 South Africa had a big fest in Cape Town harbor about the Huguenot's. Also the Boer Republic of "Die Republiek van die Oranje Vrijstaat" Constitution was based on the French model. That means that the Government can't influence the Judges or suppose too. The Transvaal or Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek was totally different.

[@tonyhawk94]

I love how Britain and France have one of the biggest rivalry in history while being so close deep down.

[@daveystayn9284]

Not that close

[@GB-ek2em]

@@daveystayn9284 Oh, you're an English that doesn't like the Frenchs.

[@daveystayn9284]

@@GB-ek2em yes people go on holiday to France all the time or don't, I'm t he latter

[@Grease7]

English are ethnically Germanic, not celtic

[@performer800]

We love detesting each others 🤪

[@eugeneimbangyorteza]

The French are Celts, Germanics, and Iberians who spoke the "most Germanic" Latin. The Brits are Celts and Germanics who spoke the "most Latin" Germanic. hahahahhahah

[@timomastosalo]

And if we think the Iberians are the old Western Europeans (in a wider area than just the Iberian peninsula), like the Basques for example, then the Brits are mostly Iberians, + some Celtic and Germanic in them. Don't know how the genetics go there for the French, though it's close the same, yet a French-German genetic pool is recognizable apart from the Irish-Brittish. But yeah, the language joke is spot on, liked that :)

[@Valandix]

Huh, ethnicly the french isn't the most germanic gallo-romance language, culture and ethnicity but ok

[@eugeneimbangyorteza]

@@Valandix It should have been Romanch but still ahhahahaha

[@millenlaflore]

So they're Vikings right?

[@timomastosalo]

@@millenlaflore Some of them, partly. I mean if someone has 5% or 31, 3 % Viking blood, is he Viking? Yet the Normandy region, where the Vikings settled. has kept some traditions and words coming from Vikings. Yet Bourgogne got its name from Germanic people coming from the island of Bornholm (the tribe likely grew larger after having settled on the continent). That was before the Viking time, Viking culture. So are those people Viking or not? And the majority of people in Bourgogne have genes coming from a time before the Burgundians came. Some of them from Alemanni or other Germanic tribes. And already in the Roman time before the Germanic migrations, some Germanic people had settle along the Ligurian Coast - how Viking were they?

[@GB-ek2em]

The frenchs are 60% celts, 25-30% germanic, 5% Romans, 5% iberic. In the larger northern part (the 3/4) of France (north of the 45th parallel), the frenchs are 60% celts, 35% germanics, 5% romans. In the most southern part of France (south of the 45th parallel, so the 1/4th of the country), the frenchs are 60% celts, 10% germanics, 15% iberics, 15% romans. Of course, these proportions change a bit in Bretagne, Flandres, Alsace, Basque, and french Catalogne. So Frenchs are mainly a CELTO-GERMANIC people... whose language is mainly of latin origin.

[@Boretheory]

Language and culture most or France identity it’s basically based on the Latin concept of unity threw cultural and linguisticall suppression NICE

[@chrisdel2564]

Normandy 100 pour cent scandinave

[@smal750]

​@@Boretheory cope harder shitalian France has nothing to do with shitaly

[@smal750]

80% celtic and 20% germanic

[@isaacdimaaksen8740]

Are you just throwing percentages at random? Or what are the sources for these numbers?

[@StevieDamnit]

Many people of French-Canadian ancestry(including myself) are direct descendants of Hélène Desportes, the first French baby born in Quebec.

[@billygr4784]

Southern France was a Greek colony and when I visited Cote d'Azur I felt like I was in my home. Thanks for everything my French friends and I would like to tell you that you have a special place into every Greek's heart. Stay strong brothers and sisters

[@billygr4784]

@Pepe not only Marseille also Nice and many small cities. Thanks for the support we have from you brothers

[@billygr4784]

@Pepe and Ajaccio 😉

[@billygr4784]

@Pepe in Greek Ajaccio is called Eakio so no😅

[@smal750]

damn

[@carlossilvestre3802]

Argentina is the third country in number of French descendants. Those people came from Southwestern France, mainly Basque Country , Béarn and Gascony

[@OcaenNam]

I’d really like to see a “who are the Iberians” video

[@Nuevomexicano]

@Ali Ay if you know so much make a video bud

[@carnivoregains1413]

They’re basically Africans.

[@erdnasiul87]

@@carnivoregains1413 so... everybody is african

[@carnivoregains1413]

Luís Barbosa “everybody is African” What does that even mean? No, not everyone is African. In Europe, the highest African markers are in Portugal and Spain, especially the Canary Islands.

[@enterfil]

Tom O’Connor I’m portuguese and I cant even go outside without getting burnt. I’m pale white and it’s rare to find dark Portuguese in northern Portugal. In southern Portugal people are darker because it’s sunny all the time. In Ireland, where I presume you’re ancestors are from, people are pasty white because it’s cloudy all the time and they barely receive sunlight. Portuguese and Spaniards do have a distinct ethnic difference. Spaniards have much more African admixture than Portuguese due to them being home to the Grenada caliphate many years after the collapse of moorish control of Iberia. Which in result left Portugal out of long term North African and Arab influence in language and admixture.

[@Alex_Plante]

The traditional elites of Belgium were not the Walloon, but rather French-speaking Flemish. Historically, in the Catholic Germanic-language areas along the Rhine (such as Flanders, The Rhineland-Palatinate, Luxembourg, Alsace), the upper classes spoke French. This is still the case in Luxembourg. Elites stopped speaking French in Germany in the late 19th Century and in Flanders after World War 2. In Alsace, being part of France, the urban population are now almost completely assimilated Francophones, and only the elderly still speak Alsatian (Alsatian is a dialect of the Swabian language historically spoken in South-Western Germany and still spoken in Switzerland today). Brussels is mainly populated by Francophones of Flemish descent (and immigrants from North Africa). Luxembourg is the last place where you still see the phenomenon of French being used as an elite language by a Germanic-language population, but it's increasingly being replaced by English.

[@nissepik]

That's correct, but I can guarantee that French will not be increasingly replaced. Too many francophones from Belgium and France are working here to make it more relevant, though Luxembourgish is finally becoming more popular among migrants.

[@antoinelerie4452]

As someone who goes to Luxembourg at least 5 times in a year for my work, I can tell you that English is not replacing French.

[@annepoitrineau5650]

Thank you for this, I learnt a lot.

[@romain6275]

In Luxembourg, not only the elite spoke french. Some places were francophone and often people were bilingual like in Lorraine or in Saarland.

[@tTantPisForFrance]

​@@antoinelerie4452English is replacing French. Cope.

[@aritzlizarragaolascoaga6254]

As a Spaniard from the north (region of Navarre) I'm very close geographically to France. My mom & her family grew up there in the French Basque coast of Biarritz, Bayonne and Anglet. Much of the French food and ways of thinking were brought when they moved back to Spain. France is amazing. If you want to improve your level of English and you have a good level of French then you start with a good base. Humanely speaking French people are remarkable. Their culture and language is worth learning. Not just because the French speak it. There tens upon tens of millions of Africans, Canadians...that speak French. French is actually their mother tongue. No wonder French is together with English the only other international language in diplomacy and international relations.

[@elbentos7803]

indeed the proximity between northern Spain and south-western France is HUGE and not that well known outside these countries: ferias such as Sanfermines have their identical (and very popular) counterparts north of the Pyrenees (Bayonne, Dax, Mont de Marsan, Narbonne), traditionnal dress are similar especially in mountains... In fact, it's very hard to tell a gascon from a navarrese except by language (or if you play rugby). The same is true for all neigbouring populations: people from Perpignan are similar to people from Gerone, Bilbao to Bayonne... Cht'i are much like walloons, savoyards to aostans, corsicans and niçois to italians; This hold true even with non romance countries : breton are quite similar to welsh or even more, cornish, as normand are to people from southern england (especially the channel islands)

[@elbentos7803]

@@DJTreviCSRecordings The actual reason why US presidents use spanish is because hispanics are, by far, the largest minority in the USA. The level of influence of a language is sometimes hard to assess : if english is undoubtly the most influential tongue (thanks to the huge level of influence of the USA) and spanish a good second, chinese actual importance isn't that clear : it's a hugely massively spoken language - in China, but not that widely known outside Chinese communities. The same may be said of hindi/urdu - comparatively to arabic or french, for exemple. Different concepts must be Taken into account : - number of native speakers (here chinese and hindi lead) - number of L2 speakers (english lead here, followed by spanish, chinese and, especially, hindi are far behind) - number of L3 speakers (english obviously, plus spanish and french) - the international spread of said speakers (english, of course, but french is widely distributed as well) - the demographic of each group (french is remarkably placed here, due to the massive growth of french speaking, as L2 even - rarely - native, african population as well as a strong increase of alphabetisation.)

[@dpjb78]

Merci beaucoup pour ce commentaire ! :)

[@DidierDidier-kc4nm]

french ppl in South west are identical with northern spanish there are no difference ! same phisicals features!! quite similar language and so on

[@ab9840]

After Mexico, the US is the second largest Spanish speaking nation. Colombia third and Spain fourth.

[@Alias_Anybody]

The Hugenots were often hightly skilled and better educated than average at that time, Protestant northern Germany took them with open arms which contributed to the steep economic rise of that region. You can still find a lot of French last names going back to that time period, while the few French names in the Catholic parts of Germany and Austria usually go back to the Napoleonic Wars.

[@bazzatheblue]

A large amount went to England as well ,one of the descendants of them is Nigel Farage of course,Laurence Olivier the great actor another.

[@Tripserpentine]

same for the Netherlands though, still lot's of Huguenot names, basically if any Dutch person has a name then can be pronounced in a French fashion safe to say, you are of Huguenot descent .

[@Alias_Anybody]

@@bazzatheblue Oh, that's why he hates France.

[@fcalvaresi]

If you want to find Huguenots, just have a look on the South African rugby team :)

[@raymondreno6025]

I myself am descended from Huguenots, though where I live makes it to were I have more in common with the Cajuns that I nominally consider myself one because people here tend to know what a Cajun is versus a Huguenot. That and I am not Protestant but Roman Catholic and perhaps the last in my family that speaks any French having learned from my grandfather

[@DesertHuguenot]

I loved the history and maps presented in this video! I’m descended from the Huguenots and love learning more about how my ancestors traveled through Europe to safely practice their faith here in America (albeit through indentured servitude to Queen Anne). For my family, it was a faith journey. They married within their faith, rather than culture or people group. Excellent video. Thanks!!

[@RoccosVideos]

Vive la France! 🇫🇷

[@fernandocastro2680]

Vive la Arabia.

[@lucasithegreat2711]

Vive la Liberté!

[@rafawidera1296]

Viva la polonge

[@rafawidera1296]

Viva la polongne🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱

[@jeanbethencourt1506]

@@fernandocastro2680 France is 50% African already.

[@celtofcanaanesurix2245]

I was hoping for a bar graph of germanic celtic italic and greek admixture by region but I guess I'll suffice with this great video

[@Wotanraven]

This would probably be impossible to count. But from what I'd gather, conquerors were often minorities who assimilated to or assimilated the native population, while staying a minority. So the basis of French genetics are the Neolithic peoples of Western Europe. When the Celts spread out, they surely had a large genetic influence, but they didn't completely replace the people there. Mostly assimilated them. When the Romans arrived, there were massive killings of the then "Gallic" peoples, but again, they weren't exterminated, and the Romans may have created colonies, they didn't overpopulate the locals. Again, when the Franks took over, they were a minority of a warrior noble class ruling over the the Gallo-Roman base. Similarly, when the Vikings conquered Normandy, they were a minority of rulers over a subject native people. So essentially, we can safely say that the southern/Mediterrenean part of France has more Italic and Greek admixture. The North-East part has more Germanic admixture. The North-West has more Brittonic admixture. But the basis, core genetics of France is probably that of the Neolithic, pre-indo-European peoples who lived there for millenia. Now with massive immigration from all over the world, demographics have only recently started to change drastically.

[@skeleton2082]

Wotanraven It’s likely Bell Beakers largely replaced the Neolithic people in France just like in Britain. The Bell Beaker brought Steppe DNA to France. It’s likely Celts mixed with Beakers just like in the British Isles.

[@TamaraJohnBlue]

Wotanraven and it’s sad to see. In the near future we’ll have no more French culture left, and no more French cheese, wine, chocolate, bread or any French cuisine. Their history will erased as if they never existed. There will be no French people in their home country left only pockets of diaspora. The same for all European homelands. ...extinction level event currently in play ... ... ... ... ... ... extinction level event currently in play ... ... ... ... ... ... extinction level event currently in play ... ... ... ... ... ... extinction level event currently in play ... ... ... ... ... ...

[@alixzerro6027]

@@Wotanraven its possible to count that why we are doing it and maybee why u never heard about it ...

[@alixzerro6027]

@@Wotanraven no sorry man dont worry in a research center we know exactly to count ... 250k roman for 7 millions celts for 450k franks and burgonds ... there is less than 20k vikings establish ... they are not a part of the dna ... the nobility in the merovingian times and the end of the empire is around 700 famillies ....in lotharingian area ... less 10 per cents" with" roman origins .. celtic at 70 per cents ... the fact the burgonds and the franks nobilities did a lot of mix with the celtic and let the celtics lords establish

[@dukeon]

Thanks Mason! Great video. The pacing and phrasing of your narration keeps getting better and better! It’s much easier to keep up with the pace now. Don’t be afraid to slowing down even more. But this was really interesting and dealt with lots of aspects of “French history” - language, religion, migration, and more. Not just blood types and genetics (although that’s interesting too). Good stuff.

[@angon4xd824]

4:30 My country 🇱🇺 being acknowledged for once, thanks Masaman

[@elbentos7803]

And now the last of the carolingians have became bankers (at least they knew how to keep actual power) 😉

[@ike9854]

You should invade Belgium, and form a " Gross Luxembourg"! Your country is beautiful, and a good friend in Europe. Greetings from Schweden.

[@ike9854]

@@Reichsritter Not very polite to tell somebody his,or hers, country should not exist!!

[@ike9854]

@@Reichsritter Everything is relative. Here in Sweden , we think Belgium and the Netherlands are very small and crowded!!!

[@ike9854]

@@Reichsritter Ha ha, some say it is, others say it stinks! Read about a Swede in Germany who was evicted. Why? He was sitting on his balcony, eating the stinking herrings!! Not so smart! I like eating them. With flat bread, potatoes and onion. Have you tried it, since you know about it?

[@hokkaidosnow6643]

Northern French:Germanic and Celtic with a small amount of Roman. Bretton is mostly Celtic and Alsace is mostly Germanic. Southern France:Mostly Celtic and Roman with some North African and Greek. A large amount of the modern French population is not the natives but Spanish,Portuguese and Italian immigrants.

[@malekaltayari3936]

@kshitij924as a Tunisian yes they are not natives we are africans

[@GB-ek2em]

Germanic tribes invaded southern France too ! Of course at a lower rate, but not insignificant. So southern frenchs have germanic ethnic origins, but in a smaller proportion.

[@reidparker1848]

"Celts" are a myth.

[@eliaspapanikolaou3563]

So strong Grecoroman influence in France according your discription

[@baptistebrigand5882]

no

[@cavejohnson982]

many hugenottes also fled to prussia, Frederick the great inviting them, and live in Germany now. You can often hear their French Heritage in their surnames!

[@alexthebigcharm3037]

A lot also emigrated to South Africa

[@tonyhawk94]

Fun fact, at the time of Napoleon, when France invaded Germany, one of the Prussian general was "Von Lestocq", who was of Huguenot origin fully assimilated to Prussia and known for his patriotism for Prussia. :)

[@cavejohnson982]

No "Herrenrasse" in sight

[@smuu1996]

All love to my dear French comrades!

[@thorstenfinke2751]

That is an odd thing to hear from a prussian :D

[@timsalter5505]

Not as odd as a German that loves the British. I am first generation German American. The French are cool, the British not so much.:D

[@smuu1996]

@@timsalter5505 Well, the British act like they want to be an american colony, while Germany and France have something much more mature today.

[@timsalter5505]

@@smuu1996 Which is ironic, considering it is the British that stole the land that is now America and killed off the natives, like they did with Australia. I have no love for the British. The French are cool though.

[@smuu1996]

@@timsalter5505 I agree. At least the france apologised and properly decolonised. Russia should(but won't) decolonize as well. Siberian natives still exist.

[@iddomargalit-friedman3897]

Well that's nice, but no haplogroups? Would love a part/video on their genetic composition!

[@backintimealwyn5736]

no data, absolutly forbiden in France. It's a tabou, everyone is french okay ? OKAY? lol. (this does'nt work anyway , people are as obsessed with identity than everyone else these days)

[@fablb9006]

Haplogroups are totally irelevant

[@wasstl2153]

Admixtures, as in most European countries. What is specific to France, is the clear predominance of R1b, whatever the clades and sub-clades, everywhere on the territory, with the highest proportion on the West coast. The proportion of I1 / I2b in the admixture is stronger in northern and eastern parts of France. J2 & E1b1b in the admixture are limited and more often present in the southern parts of France.

[@dshom]

So, genetically speaking, could the French “nation” be subdivided into regional groups? For instance the southern French sharing a common genetic background and phenotype? In comparison to northern French, like you mentioned. Are the southwest genetically related closer to Iberian peoples? The East closer to Germanic groups? I am still curious on how the French “nation” plays out on an ethnic genetic map. It has always intrigued me. I do believe there to be somewhat of a French “phenotype” at least from my own anthropological studies. I can often spot when someone is French usually by their facial features, which are similar to German and English but not quite the same. Southern French do appear closer to Italians and Spanish but still not quite. Any thoughts or further video explanation on this? I know this subject is taboo and illegal in France so perhaps the data is simply not available yet.

[@MYthologY8000]

As Milou said, France is a big mess regarding ethnicity, you can find a looot of different people from many countries around Europe and Africa. But because of history you'll find more people from a certain country in a certain region, for example there are many people from Poland in the far north (like me), people from Italy in the south but actually you can find every ethnicity everywhere in France. So I don't think you can make an ethnic map anymore. It will be more representative to make a dialect map in my opinion :)

[@annepoitrineau5650]

HI. It is neither taboo nor illegal in France to speak about the way we are all different. You are quite correct to notice that the French look different in the different areas. France is far less homogenous than Germany or Italy, or Switzerland, for example. I think the only European group the French have very little of are the slavs. People from Poland immigrated on several occasions, but they were integrated within 2 generations. I had a Polish babysitter when I was little, and the priest who buried my grandmother and baptised my youngest sister was also Polish. I had a DNA test. It confirmed my Vietnamese ancestry (coming out as Chinese as the test cannot differentiate), amazed me with a large Viking component, larger than the Celtic and Vietnamese bit, then there was some Spanish, some Eastern/Northern European, some Swiss and northern Italian and...something from the arctic circle. I wonder if my little bit of Jewish ancestry is the northern eastern European of the Spanish bit. I am baffled by the Arctic circle. I am short, brown haired, I have high cheek bones, almond shaped eyes and I get a very dark tan, and like the Sami or the Vietnamese, I have very little body hair. One of my grandmothers was blond with blue eyes. The other was a red head with freckle. Both with very light skin. One of my uncles looks like Lucio Dalla (deceased Italian singer, dark and hairy). I had a Jewish student who looked like the dark haired version of my youngest sister. One of my cousins looks so Chinese that's how he got nicknamed at work. Recognising people's nationality is not just about faces. Body language is also a cultural construct and the French might have a lot in common in terms of body language, much more than in sheer physical sameness, even if Hollywood like to propagate a special "French type".

[@tonyhawk94]

France is indeed "incoherent" genetically wise. It's relatively easy to roughly divide it with the Loire Valley. North of it, a large amount if not most people in certain regions are from Germanic background mixed with Celts. South of it most people are from Celtic background mixed with mediterranean influences. :)

[@MorganCunningham-w6d]

French people are majority Celtic in the Northwest, North, Northeast, and East, with a Southwestward gradient towards South European (specifically Iberian) genetics, peaking in the Southwest of Aquitania. Italian and German genetic impact was very minimal to be honest.

[@gia4579]

Love to our French brothers from Greece! In Greek we France as Ghallia and the French people as Ghalli.

[@luiznunes1404]

Greeks kicked their butts in Delfos… 🤽🏼‍♂️🏛

[@MrRavenski23]

Well made video which does a very good job in explaining the French both in terms of diversity and yet making a coherent and influencial nation. Maybe I would add that the French revolution, Napoleon and the subsequent republics put a lot of effort to centralise France and in playing down regional diversity. My comments coming from a Frenchman now living in Canada, born in Paris from a Breton mother and a Basque father, so basically typically French in origin. Oh and now that I am 71, i am yet to wear a French bérêt or eat frog legs but I had a number of stripey jerseys over the years :-

[@GB-ek2em]

French are a (mainly) celto-germanic people whose language is (mainly) from latin origin. According to many studies, I would say that our global genetic ethnic origins (varying according to different regions) are : 1) 50-60 % celtic (Gauls and Bretons) 2) 25-30 % germanic (Franks, Burgonds, Alamans, few Saxon) 3) 10 % celtiberians and celto-ligurians 4) 5 % roman (italics and etruscans) 5) 2-3 % scandinavian (Vikings, Jutes) Whereas our language origins and influences are : 1) 60-70 % latin 2) 20-30 % germanic (10 % of the words, and 15 % coming from pronunciation) 3) 10 % greek and others.

[@baptistebrigand5882]

but your shit study is worth nothing

[@GB-ek2em]

@Greek Army ! 3800 french words have an ancient greek origin (ie. 5 to 7 % of the french words). YOU do not know nothing ! www.axl.cefan.ulaval.ca/francophonie/HIST_FR_s92_Emprunts.htm

[@GB-ek2em]

@@baptistebrigand5882 What is your problem? What bothers you about what I wrote?

[@Boretheory]

I honestly think the Italian percentage is more like around the 10%

[@ericcartman7253]

nononononononono gallic blood is very much blended with roman. much of the gauls were killed off thats why they dont look celtic but share lots of charactersitics with italians. like come on, french people do not look like scots and irish

[@invictidomini6846]

I am part french my ancestors where from Limousine and moved to Argentina during the early 1900s I think, they didn’t flee France they where actually really rich but came to Argentina to become even richer.

[@sietchtabr5120]

Le Limousin, pas limousine (limousine is a car), it's also a cow species! So you live in Argentina, so logical ;)

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

Waterloo, he was defeated. They won the war

[@windingo7136]

Napoleon was already defeatdd before Waterloo. Waterloo is not a victory over Napoleon but a glorified execution.

[@Nickelist]

Wassup Little Rocket Man

[@beorlingo]

@@Nickelist Little Rocket Man is doing just fine. I see him all over YT comment sections.

[@elbentos7803]

Truly enough, but if everybody remember Napoléon, far less remember Wellington, barely a few remember Blucher. Waterloo is now widely seen as Napoléon epic defeat, not as Wellington's and Blucher's victory. A curious posthumus victory.

[@pa7957]

@@elbentos7803 Napoleon was old and lost his way .. I think his big mistake was to put his sisters and brothers King and Queens of all European countries he vanquished ....

[@Chatsworth1979]

Fabulous! Very dense amount of interesting info well-presented. Thank you.

[@dawnemile4974]

Alsace has changed hands between Germany and France several times, would you do a history of the people who live there?

[@yanniskouriotis7420]

Check the channel ''History Matters''. There is a short video about it.

[@tonyhawk94]

@@Reichsritter Elsass was Gallo-Roman before being Germanic buddy. ;)

[@tonyhawk94]

I live in Strasburg and Alsace is a very particular piece when it comes to culture, that's what i like there !

[@libertaslibertas5923]

@@tonyhawk94 alsace lorraine has german as its autoctonous language. And until 1919 most people spoke german and not french as their native language.

[@tonyhawk94]

@@libertaslibertas5923 I live there so i think i know the history of my region better : - The autoctonus are the Gallo-Romans (Strasbourg real name is Argentoratum). - Until 1919 the language situation depended on the location, most people spoke Alsatian dialectS (because alsatian is a mix of different dialects, that are btw not intelligible with German), and the Mosellans had already switch to French by then. On the big cities like Strasbourg, the population already spoke French (because it was the center of power obviously). - It's not Alsace-Lorraine, but Alsace-Moselle.

[@Bbuffalofan1]

This channel should really be over 1 million subs now, so many awesome, high quality vids.

[@eazyemco]

People these days are not so interested in this very important stuff. They like things that are "lit" ... and stuff like fortnite... I wish I was born around 1946 🤷‍♂️

[@HuesingProductions]

@@eazyemco really? xD

[@eazyemco]

@@HuesingProductions yes

[@icarusdigitalmarketing277]

Nah people like to use their time to listen drugs and money songs or some low culture KZbinr

[@belstar1128]

Yea in a ideal world it would be but only very dumbed down content gets that popular.

[@japaris75]

I am 50% French. I purchased 2 different companies' tests to check my DNA through saliva. They came back with the same result. I was.......34% Danish and 3% Norwegian. Wait, what? After some talk with my parents, we realized that since my French side is from Normandy, I must be more Viking than Gallo-Roman there. Even after a 1000 years of presence in France, some Frenchmen can trace their roots to oddly unexpected origins including Scandinavia. Never felt more French though......because being French is not ethnic

[@tonyhawk94]

Also French are Celto-Germanic and the Franks are from northern europe, so it doesn't really surprise me. :)

[@camembertdalembert6323]

it means that you are 63% rooted in France. Don't forget that. The scandinavian in you is a minority.

[@grill38]

welcome on board lol bises de France ♥

[@nicopooh34]

Jo Ama Mon Nom a lot of French like me doing dna test find English and Scandinavian origins as well Italian and I believe it is because it is ancient Frankish german tribes coming from North Sea so probably nearer Scandinavian and for Italian means Roman descent , and English because of the celts same genes . Data base of dna should speak more ancient with genes because unless having a direct parent from an area it makes it clear but when for 10 generations there was no way like me , it has to be from far origins . We have discussed with many people about it .

[@karpok46]

It's ethnic(s) plural form ;)

[@pescairedelua5276]

As a french man from southern background and speaker of occitan i approve this video!

[@pescairedelua5276]

Non un vrai français. Un francès vertadier que parla occitan

[@skeleton2082]

Georgios Alencar Chardavellas Depends on what region. If he is from the southwest then he is Iberian in origin. If he is from the southeast then he is Greco-Roman in origin.

[@pescairedelua5276]

@@skeleton2082 I have origins from both east and west the provençal (south east occitan) is closer to ligurian and piedmountese italian wheras the gascon (south west) and Languedoc's occitan (central) are closer to catalan and spanish. However the Gascon is very specific with a lot of basque influence

[@salomez-finnegan7952]

Is there a significant amount of Occitan people that want independence, like your neighboring Catalonians? Just curious

[@skeleton2082]

習禁評-小熊維尼Kyle There is an Occitan independence movement. There are also Corsican, Basque, Breton, Alsatian, and French Monarchist independence movements in France.

[@misseli1]

As a Spanish speaker I have an easier time understanding Occitan than Standard French

[@ninpobudo3876]

@@DJTreviCSRecordings but French is LATIN!

[@Cardi84]

Yes, and Catalan language is even more close to Occitan

[@sushibangbang]

@@Cardi84 Because this the same language but not the same dialect.

[@TKillah60]

Los occitanos hablan Catalán mijo

[@eldef5029]

As a french speaker i have an easier time understanding Catalan than standard spanish

[@larryhovekamp4318]

One inquiry toward a French subgroup which I am interested is the French who migrated across the border into Germany (esp. the Saar) and Huguenots who also were exiled in huge numbers into Prussia and much of northern Germany. Many prominent Germans in History have French surnames. The elites of the most dominant nations of pre-unification Germany, Prussia and Austria, also favored the French language and culture. Another aspect of interest of French Huguenot migration is the impact of French Protestants in the Americas, esp. the USA. Many Presidents (such as Franklin DELANO Roosevelt) and early American heroes (Francis Marion, Paul Revere) were of Huguenot descent.

[@tonyhawk94]

The Prussian general Von Lestocq during the Napoleonic wars was from Huguenot origin indeed. :)

[@Ozoal]

Frankish hasnt vanished from the French language at all! Over 1000 words are of frankish origin. Not to mention the pronunciation, the word order and the conjugation of verbs.

[@publicdomaincomedyclassics866]

Interesting. I would like to hear more about that.

[@publicdomaincomedyclassics866]

@@Ozoal Excellent, it will take me a while to read all this!

[@annepoitrineau5650]

Well said! There are many reasons for this: The most obvious one is due to the Saxons kings (Clovis, Charlemagne...), but even before that: there were Germanic recruits in the Roman armies. In fact, the Roman armies were a mixed bag of people from all over the Roman Empire. Rome anchored its colonies by giving territories to the soldiers when they retired. If you had been fighting for Rome in France for 30 years, you'd probably got yourself a local wife, and going back to wherever you came from (Sudan, Egypt, Greece, Turkey, Gemany...) did not make much sense and those who might have been waiting for you (Mom and dad) were most likely dead, so you were better off settling in the place you knew best. When people mix, languages mix. People always mix, therefore, so do languages, and languages evolve all the time. A friend of mine who left Sudan 20 years ago complained the language had changed so much he felt lost when he went for a holiday in 2019...

[@tonyhawk94]

@@annepoitrineau5650 "Saxons kings" ?????

[@davidlefranc6240]

@@tonyhawk94 Well the french from the east side were from a part of saxe you know at the clovis era they were named franks from rhenans and west side was franks saliens.

[@mollytyson1169]

The French are a mixture of Celtic, Greek, Roman, German and Nordic. France has always been a melting pot. After WW1 large numbers of immigrants came into France mainly from eastern Europe. They assimilated very easily and became French very quickly. In the 1950/60s large numbers of immigrants came from France's former colonies. Today large numbers of Algerian's have settled throughout the country.The comments about the French Canadians not mixing with others is not correct. The people of Quebec are a mixed group as well. They include French, native, Scottish and Irish. Saint Patrick's day is a major event in Quebec due to the fact that so many of people of Quebec are part Irish. In recent years large numbers of Italians also moved into Quebec. So Quebec like France is a melting pot. Even those who speak French are part something else.

[@mbd501]

They also have Iberian-type of ancestry, especially in the southwest, in the Basque Country and surrounding regions. That’s why Occitan was a sister language of Catalan.

[@philipians1635]

the races you refer to as evidence of france being a "melting pot" and a "mixture" have actually been historically reserved to distinct cultural regions within France. if you take a country as a whole and define it as a melting pot by the races it comprises then you mislead. it would be like calling Britain a melting pot because it comprises Welsh, English, Scottish and Irish etc...does that mean the average Briton is without a specific ethnic identity? no, they are one of the cultures that "British" comprises. the more Greek or more Frankish parts of France were their own parts, culturally unique regions within a wider nation. France is the sum of its parts: Occitan, Breton, Basque etc. but to be French is not to be just a general mish-mash of races. no one is just "French" and never has been. to be French is to belong to a part of France, its heritage and its land. France has never been one monolithic culture nor has anyone with concern for preserving French culture argued as such or wanted it to be! it is the sum of its ancient, diverse regions - the vast majority of whose natives have been there for millennia. that is not a melting pot but MORE evidence of the uniqueness and richness of France's cultures - and all the more reason to preserve those things. calling them a melting pot, a sheer mixture whose identity is in precisely being identityless is false and frequently used to disparage those concerned with immigration. it is a revisionist, sophistic thing used to lie through one's teeth and advance the notion that mass-immigration in the 21st century globalised world is no different from the rest of history. it has no standing, it is easily dismantled. a complete myth, as mythical as the concept of "racial purity". it is used by politicians as a justification for force - imposition of demographic replacement on a people who staunchly oppose it.

[@charlespiecyk631]

I am French from Polish origins personally, my great grandad came just after WW1 to work in the mines, so I can relate.

[@nickmtp8824]

Were are not Nordic neither Greek. It is not few little settlements in Gauls that change the overwhelming majority.

[@josephivernel2078]

Molly Tyson and IMMIGRATION!! Nowadays, 50% of the people have at least 1 grandfather of another culture of France in France

[@nissepik]

I respect the aknowledgment of the luxembourgish language, now an outsider knows about the true heir of Francia.

[@mikicassains8554]

Brilliant, amazing video!!! Congrats!! Kudos to you!

[@tonio103683]

My grandma on my mother's side is descended from Hugenots that fled to Swabia.

[@darrenh116]

Excellent video. One thing I don't agree with, however, is that the phenotypes of people are 'different' between northern and southern France; I've spend considerable time travelling in France and I would not be able to distinguish between someone from Toulon in the southeast from someone from Paris simply by their phenotype. That said, there are more people of recent Spanish and and Italian descent living in the south, so perhaps this is what you meant.

[@jfrancobelge]

Until the 20th century many people did not move much outside their region, even their village, so maybe the phenotypes were more obvious then. Nowadays many people who live in a given region don't necessarily have regional roots, or even French roots. One thing that remains though: the accent of southern France is definitely recognizable from the accent of northern France. However, it seems to me, a Northerner, that unfortunately there are more people in the South now that have lost their accent.

[@olbiomoiros]

3:46 the Kingdom of Cyprus!! The Frankish have built so many great buildings in Cyprus (many of which were unfortunately destroyed by the Turks) but still their contribution was great.

[@politiconatio5252]

The principality of Antioch was built by Normans (as the kingdom of Sicily)

[@1000eau]

@@politiconatio5252 Who are french.

[@thesoundinyourhead1782]

Like what building can you tell us?

[@maxmustermann4149]

@Masaman Could you please do a video on the Huguenots? Would be appreciated!

[@allande1977]

The ethnic origin of the vast majority of French people is Celtic. Not to be confused with their language, which is a Roman legacy.

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Kermit and Gary aren’t safe from the French. Jokes aside I like France, nice country with fascinating history

[@rayanstar7]

Harvey Davis Martinez says the one with the Latino name? Immigration is part of French history and it has always been, Garcia is the 13th most common name in France

[@thedarksword3495]

@Harvey Davis Martinez 1st I'm not justifying france's colonization or for that fact any colonization, I'm talking the effects of those on the gene pool, and 2ndly the Roman empire collapsed because they mistreated the gauls. gauls were enslaved en masse, they were given false promises of land after wars, they were seen as lesser beings and the exploitation and then the remobal of the grain dole, and they weren't allowed to enter rome. heavy taxation coupled with the rich setting up fiefdoms to avoid taxation, when your empire relies on slaves and you mistreat them, you face the consequences. finally if you actually lived in latin america you'd know that the divide isn't some colour or race bs, in fact latin america is THE biggest melting pot of all ethnicities and cultures, what divides is economic inequality and a history of suffering, the corrupt politicians and the hardworking commoners. rio de janario and brazil suffers from economic inequality more than any other place on earth.

[@elbentos7803]

@@yoshilorak5897 The only funny comment on this sad thread.

[@ike9854]

@Harvey Davis Martinez Well, Peru, Argentina and U R A GAY all lost to France in the World Cup!!!!

[@goofygrandlouis6296]

haha. Kermit is a frog, right ? :)

[@toyoashihara6242]

As a native Lorrainer (Lorraine being a region in eastern France), I would add that some parts of France, mostly at the East, were incorporated quite lately into the French territory. But due to powerful policies, even those areas were pretty well transformed into French regions as well

[@stefanlecler6767]

Would love a video that focuses on the bretons, since i have some breton ancestry, and im sure alot of french people here also do, so would be interesting. Great video once again!

[@paulbeauregard2603]

GUY DE MAUPASSANT:Contes de la bécasse (true tales of nothern France and beyond)

[@kevinrby1982]

Love your channel and I appreciate your commitment to historical accuracy. That being said, French-Canadians are compromised of two French cultural groups, the Quebecois, and Acadians.

[@adriandiaz-cabrera1733]

He said that. He also mentioned that the Acadians mostly went to New Orleans, which is true.

[@Alex_Plante]

@@adriandiaz-cabrera1733 At the time of the Expulsion there were a bout 25,000 Acadians, 60,000 French-Canadians in the St-Lawrence Valley and maybe another 20,000 French-Canadians scattered across North America, mainly in what is now the US Mid-West. During the Explusion ofthe Acadians about a quarter of the Acadians were killed or died being transported. Another quarter fled to the St-Lawrence valley where they were absorbed by the French-Canadians there. About a quarter remained in Atlantic Canada, mainly fleeing to what is now Northern New-Brunswick, which is still French-speaking to this day. The remaining quarter fled to France or to French possessions in the Caribbean (often after spending time in the English colonies where they were not welcome). A large number lived for many years in Saint-Domingue, which is now Haiti. After about 30 years, the Spanish allowed this disparate group of refugees to move to Louisiana, which was at that time a Spanish possession. In Louisiana they intermarried with Irish, Spaniard and German settlers, and became the Cajuns. Interestingly, they had only been in Louisiana for about 10 years prior to the Louisiana purchase. Many of the French-Canadians living in the MidWest moved either to Canada or to Spanish Louisiana after the US became independent and took control of the region. That last group, although not Cajuns, lived mainly in what later became Missouri and Minnesota. In the 19th Century many joined the wave of US migrants moving West.

[@davidlefranc6240]

@@Alex_Plante Louisiana was french florida was spanish napoleon sold to the americans the land of Louisiana in the napoleonic wars !

[@Lucas_Ficz]

Your knowledge is music to my ears. ❤

[@feandil666]

English and French are actually extremely close languages. As close as two languages of distinct families can be. English is german spoken by latins, and french is latin spoken by germans.

[@ReidHenderson]

I always thought them frenchies might be different than Latin Spaniards and italians. Even though it is a romance language it seems so different than Spanish or Italian.

[@natureocean9466]

It’s very EASY for a SPANIARD or ITALIAN to learn FRENCH it just comes naturally.

[@charlespiecyk631]

That's cool from the author of the video to acknowledge the 'Franco-provençal' or 'Arpitan' linguistic region, which is different from Northern France and the Occitan region (I am from Lyon personally, city historically in the Arpitan part).

[@wannabehistorian371]

The comment section proves that I should never look in the comment section of a Masaman video. It’s sad how Anthropology has to be political nowadays.

[@Bonclayr]

Trust me whenever you see a video about ''racial'' issue, dont click on it. First bcs this type of video is nonsense and the comments are...

[@wannabehistorian371]

@BonClay Well, Masaman mainly talks about anthropology. He talks about things like this from an anthropological, neutral standpoint; things like migration history, culture, etc. His fans, on the other hand...

[@katrinajarrett4251]

@@wannabehistorian371 If it pretains to someone's ethnicity in a good light it will be defended.

[@wannabehistorian371]

@Katarina Jarrett Not sure what your point is here, Sis.

[@schnwiedr5503]

it has always been political, so...

[@veganwolf3268]

Fascinating stuff! Do a video on each french sub-group.

[@JC-mo1od]

Wow, how to summarise so much in 12 minutes.. bon travail! :)

[@vuhdeem]

"Francia" is spelled in Latin; therefore it's pronounced "frankia." There was neither a soft C nor a K in Latin. The C was always hard, and the S was used for the other sound.

[@snnwstt]

You are sure of that? Lucius should be pronounced Lou-kee-ous ? Definitively, no problem with Marcus (Mar-kous), but in front of a, o, and u, the C (and the G, which were the same letter in classical latin, and even today: Gaius in English, Caius in French) are hard while made soft, in Italian, by inserting an i. As for no letter K, the old Greek has both Gamma and Kappa ( alpha, beta, GAMMA, delta, epsilon, ... kappa, ...), so I would be surprised that Roman wouldn't have the same redundancy.

[@vuhdeem]

@@snnwstt About "frankia," yes, I'm sure. All Cs were hard in Latin. Lucius is the modern pronunciation, just like "veni, vidi, vici" which actually sounded as "weni, widi, wiki" back in Rome. I am also sure that Latin had no K, U, W, or J. U and W come later from V, and J comes from I. You can still see in Romance languages today, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, that C is almost always used, K is only in foreign loan words. Italian to this day still doesn't have a K, J, W, or Y. Greek is a different alphabet altogether, and it does not have C. That's why kappa is used.

[@salvino6699]

@@vuhdeem Italian doesn't have "x"

[@Xerxes2005]

Latin evolved too. What you are saying was true in Cicero's time, but by the time "Francia" became a thing, I'm pretty sure that Church Latin was more important and that "Francia" was pronounced "Frantchia" or "Fransia".

[@RandomNorwegianGuy.]

France in Norwegian is --> Frankriket. Frankriket Translated to English is --> Frankish kingdom/realm or realm of the Franks

[@RandomNorwegianGuy.]

France in Norwegian is --> Frankriket. Frankriket translated to English is --> Frankish kingdom/realm or kingdom/realm of the Franks

[@walrustrent2001]

Great video. I would like to point out that culture, language and ethnicity can be very different, and this is the case for France. - Romans were major contributors both culturally and linguistically , but not ethnically - Germanics were major contributors culturally, and very minor contributors in terms of demographics (5% to 10% of the population) - The bulk of the French is thus ethnically of Celtic origin The reason for that is that in Gaul agriculture was very developped. They had invented the barrel, and had a very comprehensive network of roads - two elements showing that agriculture was already an industry, i.e. it was not merely to sustain local / tribal life. Also the main political organization of the Celts was federations of tribes, which also shows coordination at a large scale - although a very loose one. With the high level of agricultural output, the Gaulish population was between 9 and 11 millions people at the time of Caesar's conquest (which , incidently, began when the Sequanes wanted to migrate because they lacked room). This is a very high number, and it has been questioned, but there are a lot of arguments in its favor. In comparison, the romans conquerors settled very little of Gaul because they were already in their demographic winter ; and the german conquerors were very few in number in comparison because their agriculture was less developped. Less than 1 million Franks, Burgundians, Wisigoths, Vandals are estimated to be the germanic demographic participation.

[@arnoldhell8466]

Enfin quelqu 'un qui connaît son sujet et qui ne raconte pas de conneries plus grosses que lui

[@banditop276]

finalement lorsque l on dit nos ancêtres les gaulois c est la vérité n en déplaise a certains !!

[@louisjolliet3369]

Quite interesting. I somehow always assumed that it was mostly Latin / Roman ancestry, corresponding to the culture, but this is totally wrong, then. Do you have sources for that? This kind of topic is very obscure in French-speaking culture.

[@banditop276]

@@louisjolliet3369 jusqu'à maintenant le récit de référence était la guerre des gaules de Jule césar et comme se sont les vainqueurs qui écrivent l histoire ca n a jamais été remis en question mais des fouilles archéologique ont remis pas mal de choses en question

[@louisjolliet3369]

@@banditop276 Intéressant. Mais la guerre des Gaules commence avec les Séquanes qui ont des soucis avec.................je ne sais plus qui. Les Helvètes? Puis termine avec la Gaule pacifiée, quelques années après Alésia. Ce qui est pertinent, c'est la colonisation de la Gaule qui a suivi. Mais c'est logique, en fait. Rome a dû envoyer des garnisons, des administrateurs et des marchands, ce qui n'a représenté qu'une goutte d'eau dans toute la population gauloise, sans doute. C'est dommage que ces questions anthroloplogiques n'intéressent que peu de personnes.

[@upintheair4358]

Great video, I'd love to know more about the Gauls.

[@eisernfront8549]

The real question is... Who are the French Canadians?

[@alixçaglisse]

Its Me Your Boi Asmongold the descendants of western french (bretagne, normandie..)

[@Alex_Plante]

About 10 million people are of French-Canadian descent today (about 6 million in Quebec, 1 million in the rest of Canada and 3 million in the USA, mainly in New England), and the vast majority are descended from only 5000 couples, made up of people who migrated mainly from Western and Northern France in the 1600s. Births, marriages and deaths have been meticulously recorded for centuries (as well as property deeds, wills and lawsuits) and most French-Canadians can therefore trace their geneology back 400 years. There have been small amounts of admixture with Indians, English from the US colonies (the French and English colonists would often raid and kidnap each other), and in the 19th century a huge influx of Irish (many Irish orphans were adopted into French-Canadian families). In the late 1700s many German and Scottish soldiers who were in the British army also married French-Canadians. Since 1760 there has been constant intermarriage between English and French-speaking Canadians so today's French-Canadians are probably still predominantly French but with a large British element.

[@skeleton2082]

Most French Canadians can trace their ancestors to northern France around Normandy and the Ile-de-France region. Also, some minor ones came from Britanny, Picardy, and Anjou.

[@Alex_Plante]

@@skeleton2082 Aunis was also an important source of immigrants because of La Rochelle. La Rochelle and St-Malo were the 2 main ports from which colonists sailed from France.

[@robert893]

Alex Plante Accurate. The Québécois maintained extremely meticulous ancestral records. Made mapping my family tree along my paternal line a breeze. It was complete back to the 1500’s with some lines going back even further. Most if not all Québécois are descended from 800 women called the ‘filles du roi’ (King’s daughters).

[@sevoo1579]

And keep in minds that there where local tribes in this territory BEFORE the celt even arrive

[@annepoitrineau5650]

Yes. See Cheddar man (the hunter/gatherers who were all over Europe and might have been the same people who gave us Lascaux and later, Carnac), later supplanted by the Corded ware Yamnayans issued tribes, replaced by the bell beaker people, if I am not mistaken.

[@cyrille8693]

hm, ok, it's interesting however, I'd like to add some precisions about what you say and what I know regarding my roots. I don't come from University, I'm just a random french dude interested in history (so, I'm not an autorithy regarding this topic, get your on infos on your side, ppl). First of all : your introduction about the fact that there can't be ethnic data base (it's basicaly illegal here) is true but it mostly come from the fact that we were an occupied country during the world war II and also the fact that France was in europ the second or first (?) jewish homeland. It's super complicated to explain in just few sentences but there was in the XIXth century an expression which was "happy like a jew in France". There was a(nother) wave of anti-semitism in europ in the late XIXth, France wasn't spared, the Dreyffus case happened, spliting the public opinion and later the law of 1905 divinding any religion from the state... so yup, no ethnic or religious database here. Because of secularism and ethnic or religious persecutions.. so, yeah, we don't like databases not because we're one of the crossroad of europ but.. mostly because of a Hitler and the colaboration with the ennemy. Second, regarding the Gauls : Gauls were just tribes with their own specific political agendas. And some will say that the "gallo-roman culture" is just a very late invention from historians (still from the XIXth century) and there is no evidence that France can advocate to be the fair child of those diversed and divided tribes. About the Frank thing : we're talking about the Francs Saliens, which means the Franks from the marshes, so... a dutch tribe of Franks whom helped the Roman empire as military auxiliary until the day/week/year the roman empire falled appart. Then those warlords took over the land for themselves in the name of rome and its "new religion" : christianism. Fun part of this is : there is no evidence of massive invasions (there is no archeological evidences of changes in the funeral rituals in that time while romans liked graveyards and franks and german tribes prefered to be burnt) but yes, some ppl prefered to be buried as frankish soldiers in that time, probably because of.. taxes (?) yup, Franks were not hit by the taxes so... I let you imagine how Frank everybody wanted to be (fun fact : in french, to be "franc" means, to be "honnest", lol). Regarding the colonies : the colonies are just a Roman word which sum up it all. There is a lot to say but I'm not writing a thesis :) just know, for your basical knowledge that, in 1998, France became world champion in soccer with a man nammed Christian Karembeu (neo caledonian). one of his ancester was exhibit in a cage to a universal expo in Paris in the early XXth... so yeah, we were opened to racial mixity but meh, not so much I won't comment the usual fight with the Brits (too long story, too much legends and too much private jokes and bitching at each other) However I saw in your video a Nationality thing : here is a (very !) big spread in europ : how do you become a citizen ? In France, we've chosed the right from the soil and in Germany, they've chosed the right from the blood. Which mean : if you've borned on a french soil or from a one of your french parent, you're french. In Germany, it's only a parent thing. Maybe it changed but really it means a lot of things regarding how you inherit a nationality, its history, it's roots. Sorry for my poor english and high five if you could reald me to this end.

[@salomez-finnegan7952]

Cyrille “frank” means “honest & straightforward” in English as well. We frequently say “To be frank, ...” and “Frankly speaking...”

[@cyrille8693]

@@salomez-finnegan7952 Yes, I know :) However, I have to admit that I always have problems when it comes to english and french words whom have the same meaning. Because of Guillaume (Wiliam for the english ppl) and the 100 years war, a lot of french words became common in english and the same way around I would say (even if it's probably more recent).

[@walrustrent2001]

The name of the Frank tribe came from the term "Frekkir" which loosely means "terrifying" - and that they had chosen themselves Franc in old French means free (and possibly specifically free of taxes as you mentionned it, so maybe it is directly related to Frank). It has taken the meaning of straightforward, because if you speak freely you are supposed to speak your heart...

[@cyrille8693]

@@walrustrent2001 Interresting, thanks for your input. Was the double K very common in their language ? Because there is almost no K in french so a double K is just a dream in a scrabbled mind :'D

[@sunglassshinpan1352]

French-Algerian, Anissa Kate, is HOT! 😍

[@aekaek8110]

She is algerian italian and she is not hot at all iam algrian algerian girl look better than her 🇩🇿🇩🇿

[@cezarstefanseghjucan]

Blergh!

[@aristostovboulimienne2743]

Vintage Victoria Paris.Perfect body.

[@massinissaziriamazigh8122]

Aek Aek 👍 vive l'algerie ❤

[@zrocks2001]

Masaman the most interesting person in the world. luv the channel. great work.

[@raffer807]

Ethnic origin of the Portuguese in the future maybe? Interesting video nonetheless Masaman, thank you^^.

[@athanasiusphilopatorismaxi389]

221 yes ago, something GREAT happrned the French landed here in Alexandria and Egyptology was founded. Rest in Peace Emperor *NAPOLEON* & scientist Jean-François Champollion .

[@unnamedchannel2202]

Luxembourgian is a Moselle Franconian dialect, like the neighbouring German dialects too. Even some Rhine Franconian dialects are close enough to be mutually intelligible.

[@kevindasilvagoncalves468]

It talked mostly about history. It could have talked about haplogroups, genetic studies and so on, just like in the video about italians.

[@elbentos7803]

Well, because large scale genetic classification is just strictly forbidden in France, especially studies with the goal of racialo-ethnic classification.

[@elbentos7803]

@Trône de Marchandises Well, i'm not entirely convinced by the scientfic aspect of this (somehow interesting) study; there are mistakes here and there. For exemple : - Medium size rivers like Loire or Seine never have been barriers, even in neolithic times: these rivers are extremely calms, have a lot of fords or calm areas where a rowboat may cross the water in short times without difficulties. I don't even mention Adour wich is, for most of its course a tiny and narrow river. - French statesmen had far less difficulties than spanish ones with the basques, except during carolingians. Indeed, the last branch of the capetians (the Bourbons) came from gascon and basque (Béarn, Albret, Foix, lower Navarre) fiefdoms that gave them the backbone of french army of this time. - Even if relationships with bretons were tense at times, it was more a strictly political factor than an ethnic one, even less genetic : during the revolution, most anti-government action (chouannerie) took place in the french speaking area of Brittany, whereas the celtic speaking ones were more pro-government, especially the big port cities (Brest, Lorient, Saint-Malo). The worst revolts occured in Vendée, an area strictly indistinguishable from the rest of western France.

[@salomez-finnegan7952]

el bentos with everyone now doing genetic tests on self-will it’s now possible to derive useful & somewhat accurate data though

[@witchgroup]

@@elbentos7803 no wonder we were pro-gov (i'm from Brest) those were royal ports :)

[@elbentos7803]

@@witchgroup Exactly! What I wanted to point out is that people follow(ed) their social (and therefore, economic) interests : western part of Brittany - a particularly maritime province, had its interests firmly linked with the (royal, then republican) military and commercial (therefore colonial) navies, whereas the more rural, agricultural eastern Brittany felt no particular interests for the whereabouts of the political turmoil in Paris (beyond the end of old feudal privileges, a point positively seen by all peasantry).

[@jennypai1776]

Another great video! When are you going to do a vid about Eurasians?

[@glenmartin2437]

A complex history. Thanks for the video.

[@hutternen]

Great vid ;) As a guy from the northern tip of France, I'd add the ch'ti language which has Dutch influence with a dash of beer. You'd have trouble understanding half of a sentence even if you were French. Though as I recall a bit of this population identifies as Dutch, the region isn't asking for independence (contrary to the Bretons and and the Corse who have active groups wanting just that)

[@bobopopo444]

Salut les ch'ti! Groetjes uit vlaanderen

[@soapbrick9482]

Not Dutch its Flemish

[@CWGanz]

From a Frenchman: PERFECT.

[@ImYourOverlord]

Parfait!

[@nathanc939]

So many French have come to live in small villages in Québec that it almost feel like a second wave of colonisation. Also, you said marriage with native was rare in french colonies, it certainly wasn't here in Québec, in fact it was heavily encouraged in the early days, as it was less expensive than importing french women.

[@abrahkadabra9501]

They say when you shake a French Canadian family tree an Indian usually falls out.

[@nathanc939]

@@abrahkadabra9501 Yeah most (nearly everyone) have at leas 1 or 2 somewhere in there.

[@lesamisdelacuisineprovenca9534]

They used to be called "les filles du Roy". Many Young mothers without any husband. They were deported to Québec.

[@louisjolliet3369]

@@lesamisdelacuisineprovenca9534 Wrong. Most of them were simply orphans.

[@mathieuleader8601]

you had the gaul to do this comprehensive origin video

[@italyspqr7090]

Bonjour,I am a descendant of France through my mom.she told me before but I completely forgot. I feel lucky🍀😍

[@Yemile31776]

Funny point to mention. The city of Marseille, on the mediteranean coast, has been founded by greek settlers. Very good video, as a frenchman I appreciate it. This is a disgrace that te regional languages are disappearing. I am in favor of bilingual policy. We must have a connection with our identity through the language. Merci à toi Masaman, et pour que vive la France 🇫🇷 vive le Roi ⚜ !

[@alcare7755]

Actually native French (from mainland France) are mainly a Bronze Age mix composed of Iberian-like and British-like people (and probably German-like). More British-like in northern and eastern France, more Iberian-like in southern and central-France. You can see it on the latest genetic study on the French called "The genetic history of France" (The methods of this study are far from being perfect, especially in the most southeastern corner of the country, but on the whole it gives a pretty decent idea of the French and it corresponds to native French results you can see on websites dedicated to dna results).

[@Alex_Plante]

I've always wondered how Latin the French were. When Caesar conquered Gaul (which includes modern Belgium, Switzerland and the Rhineland region of Germany), he claimed that the original population was 6 million, of which he killed 1 million and enslaved another million. At the time Gaul was a checkerboard of about 60 tribes, half of whom were allied to the Romans, and half opposed to the Romans. I'm guessing it was mainly the half opposed to the Romans who were largely massacred and enslaved. I've always wondered if these depopulated areas of Gaul were not settled by Roman soldiers, and if today they would have more Latin genetics than other parts of France that would be more Gaulish. Interestingly, the modern French have always perceived themselves to be Latins and not Celts, although today it's fashionable for more recent populations of Maghrebin and African origin to refer to the old-stock French as "les gaulois".

[@siyaadbarreiyodalkaallahau4618]

they don't have north and west european facial features

[@alcare7755]

@@Alex_Plante Well as far as I know, in spite of the slaughter of some tribes and the slaughter of the Druids, the vast majority of the Gallo-Romans were native Gauls. The Roman numbers are not to be fully trusted, as most of the ancient times sources. Moreover the Gauls kept their ancestral culture alive for centuries during the Roman Empire. So there were few Italian colonists, but they were quickly absorbed by the native masses. The same occured later with the Franks. Now the genetic studies confirm all that. And if you add up to that mere obsvervation, you can clearly see the differences with Italians, especially Italians from the central and southern parts of the peninsula (although there are exceptions, especially in the most southeastern part of France, probably due to Italian and Greek inputs). In France, including since the age of nationalism, we have always seen ourselves as Gauls of Roman and Greek cultures.

[@alcare7755]

Unfortunately this tendency to identify closely with Roman and Greek cultures made us believe their propaganda in regards with our ancestors. So if the French tended to identify as Gauls, they didn't think highly of their achievements/culture. It was more an emotional identity, linked to blood. That's being said, people are more and more aware that the Celts were not exactly what the Greeks and Romans wrote about them. We know that they developed many interesting technologies (in terms of weapons, agriculture), organized well their territories, exchanged with other people etc...

[@skeleton2082]

Siyaad barre Allaha unaxariisto North French do.

[@22grena]

Frances position on not recording ethnicity has nothing to do with Frances original ethnic makeup. Its because of the separation of church and state initiated by the French Revolution. This was done at a time when France was a wholly ethnic European state. Since mass migration these rules have worked against the indigenous French in a way never intended by its lawmakers.

[@jam4596]

And yet, according to LeMonde (www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2015/05/06/quatre-questions-sur-les-statistiques-ethniques_4628874_4355770.html), this law was established only in 1978. It seems like France has been having trouble adapting the principle of "laïcité" to the culturally/ethnically diverse population it has today

[@nickmtp8824]

Unfortunately, the political were against us and favoured immigration to lower salaries.

[@AnthonyDavidsound]

You have the best channel on yt

[@swirlcrop]

Good video. What about the Occitains?

[@rogerhinman5427]

I am an American with French-Canadian, Portuguese, and English ancestry. I'm conflicted...

[@abrahkadabra9501]

No wonder! One part of you wants to eat cheese while the other wants to drink and another part wants to wear old stinky sweaters. Poor you! 😂👍

[@rogerhinman5427]

@@abrahkadabra9501 LOL!

[@skeleton2082]

I am an American of English, Scottish, Irish, French Canadian, Polish, and German ancestry. Please help me...

[@theoneandonlylordfarquaad3361]

Am I one of the few Americans that has Huguenot ancestry? I feel like there are not as many Americans with a Protestant French background directly from France to the U.S. instead of Canada first. My French Huguenot ancestors probably saw Catholic Québec and were like “Nope”

[@sunglassshinpan1352]

Mason is busy ❤ing the comments! Ooo la la!! 😘

[@Mondo762]

One of the most attractive women I've ever met was Tahitian/French. I met her in Viet Nam. Even after all these years, the memory of her is still amazing. Charleston, SC had an early settlement of Huguenots that helped built the city. Their influence today can be seen throughout the city.

[@MrDmi210]

By chance did you serve in Vietnam?

[@Mondo762]

@@MrDmi210 I was a Junior Engineer on a troop ship that ran between Pusan, S Korea and S Viet Nam 1972-73. The lady I mentioned was married to a CIA agent and they lived in Cam Ranh Bay.

[@Someperson273]

Masaman, I respect your much effort in this video. However, it would be better if you could show small island countries on the map when you talk about them (not only the archive photos of some families)

[@hampusandersson5730]

Great video! Italy next?

[@Pfsif]

ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ Sacre Bleu !!!

[@bapotet]

damn you beat me to it haha

[@mrronron7328]

Insult not use since 1500'

[@pepitocaramba9272]

@@mrronron7328since 1200

[@mrronron7328]

@@pepitocaramba9272 since -100 BC

[@miyojewoltsnasonth2159]

@@mrronron7328 @Pepito Caramba Sacre bleu is alive and well in Quebec, along with "tabernac." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacrebleu

[@jessicagomes4043]

Can you please do a video on the Illyrians?

[@_robustus_]

I would love that and the Thracians too but that’s more or an ancient cultures topic.

[@belstar1128]

I want to see that train wreak in the comments

[@_robustus_]

I also would like to see a decent depiction in film of the proto greeks and paleo balkan peoples. Sadly, if someone undertook that, it would probably be low authenticity. Think Spartacus, Hercules or the 300.

[@AlanAndalon]

There are significant French diaspora communities in Latin America, such as México, Chile, Venezuela, Brazil and Argentina.

[@benjaminfranklin724]

Actually most french southamerican communities are in certain areas of Colombia and is a very recent inmigration.

[@RemyR-vz2vt]

Congrats you nailed it all

[@DavidChanrion]

Hello - thank you for this video ! Some Additional remarks - there were peoples before the celts arrived : basks people are said to prelive the celts but also the Ligurians in the south - it has to be mentioned that Greek influence was really strong in Gaul - as most towns on the Mediterranean coast were founded by Greek settlers (Nice, Marseille, Antibes and Hyères were all Greek port colonies from the Asian town of Phocea - and when phocéens left their city after the Persian wars, many settled in their western colonies - it’s now clearly established that Greek language was widely spoken in marseille till the second century which proves a long and permanent influence - many Gallic tombs show exchange with Estrucan, Greeks and later romans - Germanic influence was already strong when Jules Caesar invaded Gauls : northern france had more Germanic influences and south Gauls was already clearly romanized so that that Gallo Roman culture became obvious after the conquest of Caesar Germanic Franks influenced heavily early France and gave birth of what would become the French royalty, the establishment of power in and around Paris and made france a central power in Western Europe But migrations never stopped: still possible to see many Viking and Saxons influences in northern french territory If we come back to modern times - till recently the most numerous community of origins were people from Portugal (more than 1.5 million people ) but over the years people from Italy are more numerous though it has been constant over different periods of times (even in Middle Ages) If you consider all people of Maghreb as one , they are today the most numerous influential groups : Algerians, Tunisians and morticians make up at least a group of more than 3 million people and their influence can be traced to gastronomy to language Over the last decades, a visible African influence is also obvious especially in Paris. Should not be overtaken : Asian people of different countries : China and Vietnam mainly

[@ozgurgezer9471]

*franks *burgundians *ancient greeks *romans *celtics *ligures *normans *İberians Are origin of the french people

[@BroadwayRonMexico]

The Gallic Empire wasnt really an ethnic secessionist empire. Postumus was of a Germanic, not Gallic, extraction and was essentially just an ambitious general with a lot of regional power who lost faith in the central government during the turbulence that was going on at the time (especially some disastrous defeats in Persia)

[@jeromedelabrosse119]

the occitan language is still one of the most known regional languages in france, its not rare to see restorant where the menu is in both langage same for bakery and all, also the ppl from nice dont speak occitan but a specific dialiect closer from italian due to the fact nice was for a very long time italian

[@tchop6839]

It’s still must more Occitan than Italian, but it’s has a lot of traits in common with Gallo-Italic (specifically Ligurian), a language group that shares features with Occitan Italian and French. It makes Nissard a very unique and hard to classify dialects, since it’s transitional between 2 language groups which themselves are hard to classify.

[@nadirsehiri8041]

You made a video about North Africa, could you please make one specifically about Algeria?

[@julienbee3467]

L'Égypte plutôt

[@mitchd4929]

Thanks, French Canadien here. Would love to hear more about us