Origins of the French

The French are one of the key nations within Europe and well known around the world for their culture, language and important historical figures. This video explores the ethnic origins of the French, from prehistory into the modern period.
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[@acaydia2982]

People like to hate on the French, but it wasn’t until about a year ago that I realized just how much of what I believed was propaganda. Respect to the French. A truly fascinating and beautiful people. I’m in full support of France for the French! Don’t let these idiots squander your children’s inheritance.

[@mistersir3020]

I think it's only a thing in Anglophone countries to dump on the French

[@narusawa74]

Thanks for not listening to the propaganda🙏

[@wyattcole5452]

@@mistersir3020yea, Americans usually say it’s cuz of ww2 but they rlly don’t know much reason after

[@oconnorsean12]

My ex business partner is French, he was pretty spineless and a crook!

[@chriselliott4621]

Wait until you meet Quebec'ers lol.. superiority complex from nothing. Also the actual french are sell outs and brutal murderers throughout history, even cannibals as written about during the crusades. Charlemagne genocided Saxons and dispersed their bloodlines throughout the kingdom. So much darkness behind French history. But let's ignore all that and paint the pretty colours... This is not an umbrella statement to all french people; as many french are great souls and passionately fought for noble causes including the Christ throughout the ages.

[@CROM-on1bz]

A very small correction: Joan of Arc was not captured by the English but by the Burgundians who sold her to the English. And she was not burned alive in Paris but in Rouen.

[@garwafmalebeste9871]

And she was from a wealthy familiy, she could read and her hearing the voices of angels is not a fact.

[@colinjohngilbert3994]

I'm Irish an proud but my second name is Gilbert 😊 we are all European remember in the years to come and stand together ❤🇮🇪🇫🇷 🤘

[@JT.Pilgrim]

My friend. Gilbert is germanic. Im also French and my middle name is Gilbert. My fathers name is also Gilbert.

[@colinjohngilbert3994]

@@JT.Pilgrim of course I know this 😜 in life you have to know where you have come from to understand where you are going 🤘 together we stand ❤️🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇫🇷 🇩🇪

[@tt-yr4bz]

​@@colinjohngilbert3994 vive le peuple européen aujourd'hui en danger... Face a un auttre peuple. Nous sommes a l'origine de ce qu'il y a de mieux dans ce monde nous sommes un grand peuple

[@stateless4255]

Knowing that the population at that time was small we can think that the French and the Irish have the same ancestors and share part of their genetics. We are cousins.

[@NormandieDiexAie]

I am french and living in Ireland 🇫🇷❤️✝️🇮🇪

[@jamellfoster6029]

As an American with French ancestry, Viva La France 🇫🇷...

[@bienspasser9054]

*vivE la france

[@brunol-p_g8800]

Viva isn’t French, in French we say Vive la France…

[@jamellfoster6029]

@@brunol-p_g8800 Thanks for the correction.

[@carthkaras6449]

​@@brunol-p_g8800 il n'y a pas besoin de mettre des "..." Vraiment, le savoir-vivre c'est pas votre fort...

[@chriswekelo851]

I concur, my friend. I have learned quite a bit, about the French Canadian lines of my family tree, during the previous few years. My genealogy research, revealed my French Canadian Paternal Grandmother's deeper roots, in France itself.

[@barnsleyman32]

i love these videos looking at the origins of our european ethnic groups! vive la france from this englishman 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇫🇷

[@tinygrim]

You could have french in you 😊

[@ShireTommy1916_Somme-Mametz]

​@@tinygrim sadly, when the Tommies came home, 1919, they returned with women from the continent. So no doubt.

[@tinygrim]

@@ShireTommy1916_Somme-Mametz no doubt, Spanish, German, Dutch too. Why is that sad ? Many people are of mixed heritage, Sadly because y'all didn't stay home. Not just British... No hate It's like me, my GPs came from Sweden. But I'm Scandinavian Baltic, with German, Irish, Finnish ,some French ... I'm not AN American. I'm a US citizen... ITS LIKE in Mexico, many are Spanish and a mix of other.. Russia, Japan, China, India, Saudi...and Africa has kept most there true heritage in their own countries... Norway, Sweden too... I hope that makes sense . I had my DNA tested... Really brings shiz home...lol ..

[@tinygrim]

@@ShireTommy1916_Somme-Mametz it happened other ways too.

[@captainpawpawchannel]

There's no french "ethnic group", french were celtics, latins, germans, then italians, russians, polishes, africans, etc, that's the beauty and force of France

[@Sionnach1601]

Macron recently said "There is no such thing as French culture" 🤡🤡 From Ireland, France pour Les Français 🙏🙏🇨🇵🇨🇵

[@SharpTac]

He's a traitor to his country

[@DidierMey-ci5gs]

Macron est un pervers narcissique. Il est un cas psychiatrique. Et en plus, il n'aime ni son pays, ni son peuple.

[@teljft]

Macron ne nous aime pas, nous les français. Et une grande majorité de français le lui rendent bien.

[@SophieHanna-sn9hc]

🙏🇨🇵💚💚

[@usamarins7471]

Il y a plus de patriote à l'étranger pour la France que de français patriote pour leurs propre pays c'est affligeant 😢

[@tibsky1396]

Generally speaking, there are more words of Frankish origins than Gaulish in the French language. Which would make it the most Germanic Romance language, just as reversely English is the most Romance Germanic language.

[@hervedecordey3361]

Touché !

[@Sionnach1601]

Well said Buddy 👍👍 🙏☘🇮🇪🇨🇵🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🙏

[@gerharddeusser9103]

Vocabulary alone does not decide the nature of a language. The elegant, refined pronounciation and rhythm of french (my first foreign language) differs enormously from my native german and other germanic languages. A lot of the soft consonants remind me a lot of the polish language. But the people remained mostly celtic, just like those of germany south of the line of Benrath. Mentality / Temperament of more southern germans is also much more celtic. I got an irish temperament certified by a scottish nurse while working in a Lanarkshire Hospital... The northern germans are cold, dead fish to us.

[@bcseverac3432]

Frankish/germanic influences are moreover important in syntax, word order, word endings and prononciation. Reason why French differs from other Latin languages. This took place before year 1000. And 70% of English words come from medieval French after year 1100. Regards

[@tomnoxx8734]

La langue allemande sert a dresser les animaux, c'est pour dire son romantisme !

[@skiteufr]

The foundation of the French people lies on the mix of Celts, Romans and Franks. All of them influenced heavily the culture, ethnicity, language and political history of France. France is an old country for Europe and a great part of european history resolves around the French, their influence, ideals or actions. For good or bad. This is why a lot of people tend to hate the French or see them negatively. The more influential you are, the more subject to criticism you are. Nobody hates Luxembourg or Norway for example... as they had much less impact on the course of world events

[@deltame3264]

Thats not true regarding ethnicity, latest studies show french dna is largely celt since the end of bronze age. Roman and germanic genetics impact is very limited.

[@ME-eu9sf]

@@deltame3264 Depends of the region. Brest isn't Lille, Lille isn't Metz, Metz isn't Toulouse.

[@skiteufr]

@@tijust66 the Vikings are a minority among ancestors of Normans. Most normans are of celt and germanic stock

[@didicherokee3566]

Vous pouvez seulement approfondir à Germain tout court car les francs le sont ainsi que les celtes puis l'Espagne est devenue un royaume wisigoth comme les grandes migrations ....nous sommes tous germains et elle a été une difficulté pour Rome parce qu'elle pactiser aussi d'ailleurs le saint empire romain germanique le represente faut pas ce leurrer et non les germains ne sont pas tous blond aux yeux bleus ! 😂

[@deltame3264]

@@didicherokee3566 les populations germaniques n'ont pas remplacées les populations gauloises et celtibères pour autant

[@abe000torte]

There's an error at 28'. Joan of Arc was executed in Rouen, not Paris.

[@violenceislife1987]

Merci beaucoup! Mon ancestors. Cajun from Southern Louisiana.

[@trotskin87]

Howdy to you cousin! ;)

[@andersschmich8600]

(Relative) continuity for 4500 years yet the French aren’t considered indigenous, while the Navajo who arrived 600 years ago in their present homeland are. Not a knock on the amazing Navajo, just shows how politically charged the term is.

[@Whatsthedealsquirter]

Ok so the same people that were there4,500 years ago have been mixed with everyone who conquered France so the people there now are not of the same genes,not sure how I feel about the Navajo thing ,a lot of those tribes moved and were ran out of their original lands so many times before the Europeans set foot in the new world that they had a hard time keeping track of where they were from, remember all it takes is a misinterpreted word in a song,or a misplaced bead on a shawl woven from a elderly member of the tribe,I could be wrong and often am but that's all I could intelligently add to your statement,thanks for making me think 👍🫡

[@Shin_Lona]

"Indigenous" is really only used in conjunction with affected by European colonization - even though, by definition, you're correct. Activists can't acknowledge that at one point (often several), the colonizers themselves were conquered and subjugated. It interferes with their victimhood grift.

[@xhorxheetxeberria-td1hu]

​@@WhatsthedealsquirterThe original Americans have been in America for over 30 thousand years. That doesn't compare to 5 thousand or 2500 years ago for these people.

[@shanegooding4839]

They are not considered indigenous by who? I've yet to meet anyone who does not think of the French as indigenous to France. Native Americans are indigenous to the Americas just like Native Eurasians are indigenous to Eurasia. Both groups have been present in those respective regions for many thousands of years.

[@CentauriSphere]

Same in Japan with the Ainu, or the Sami in Scandinavia. It's because they are minorities that arrived a long long time ago. I don't think there's anything wrong with it. Then again, why aren't the Roma described as native? Probably racism.

[@hartheos5924]

it's sad that the french bashing is working so well because of american

[@kfnrkldbrm8265]

As French people these are old stories because of political quarrels. An old alliance has generated a lot of expectations on both sides, and disappointments, because our geopolitical interests are sometimes diametrically opposed, which spoils the legacy of the three wars. Deep down we remain true friends

[@Mik31276]

As someone with French ancestry I enjoyed this and appreciate you talking out against France’s blight.

[@garwafmalebeste9871]

As a French man I do not appreciate the propaganda contained in this video.

[@padraigmaclochlainn8866]

I always joked I was 100% Gaulic, Because my fathers side is Irish and my mother a pure bred French-Canadian.

[@histatimaniples]

Genetically Irish aren’t “gualic” they just adopted Celtic language and culture

[@padraigmaclochlainn8866]

@@histatimaniples Irish are possibly linked to Celt Iberians, which while not Gauls were dubbed Gauls by the Roman's, hence the name Port of the Gauls and Gaulicia.

[@therealmcgoy4968]

@@padraigmaclochlainn8866the Irish are not related to Celtic Iberians. The Irish are closest related to bell beaker peoples.

[@thomaslacornette1282]

Yes in fact people in the continents are more celtics than peoples from british islands, as the center of celtic culture was in central west europe. The celtic culture have spread like american culutre spread in all the western world but that doesn't make us Americans either.

[@deltame3264]

​@@padraigmaclochlainn8866no Gauls were not dubbed Gauls by the romans, thats a common misconception

[@bucephulus4600]

Im Australian with a French great grandmother. I can trace my ancestry to Alain the Great of Bretagne, Charlemagne and Clovis the First. I’m in constant contact with my French rellies. Have been to France four or five times and will keep going. It’s my favourite of all places. France 🇫🇷 for the French with an Aussie meat pie.

[@haidouk872]

I don't want to sound rude or anything, but due to how genetics work, pretty much anyone in western Europe who's from a local family is a descendant of Charlemagne and Clovis.

[@bucephulus4600]

@@haidouk872 No, don't consider it rude at all. But in a country where I live where most people would struggle to identify their great grandparents, it's a bit of a blast, and interesting to be able to trace my heritage back that far and beyond.

[@haidouk872]

@@bucephulus4600 I gotta admit, my family all come from peasant backgrounds, so I probably can't trace back very far before losing the thread

[@bucephulus4600]

@@haidouk872 Mate, don't worry, I come from convict stock here in Sydney. Although, once upon a time, if you had convict stock you did everything you could to hide it. Back in the 80's, if you had convict stock, youwere Australian royalty (my ancestor was transported for bigamy). Now, if you're white, everyone hates you).

[@ansfelt8154]

Laugh my fucking ass off. Almost everybody descends from these people, that's how genealogy works. Stay on your side of the planet, Aussie. Merci bien, et arrête de faire le pitre, teubé.

[@cesruhf2605]

First time i've seen an anglophone video not shitting on france

[@CLP99th]

Excellent video. Love all the information about the Gauls, I've seen a lot of 'academics' claim that we know next to nothing about Celtic peoples or culture, or even outright denying they existed as a people but when you actually look there is plenty of evidence (archaeology, historical accounts, linguistics, toponyms, genetics, modern descendants and their culture, mythology, folklore) to get a clear picture of who they were/are. Thank you for doing the work, compiling it, and presenting it to us brilliantly.

[@ImWithTeamTrinity]

It feels like they are trying to erase our heritage almost.

[@JonniePolyester]

Such great videos ☺️

[@reneeh4406]

Your videos are so well researched and put together and you have such an interesting presentation style. Thank you so much for creating such wonderful content

[@jmslifud]

Great well-documented video. Very intersting

[@Lelitteraireducoin]

I am truly impressed of what Farya Faraji is doing with his french songs. If someone is interested I highly recommend his channel.

[@mattgoyette4965]

He is amazing

[@Jean-PaulJonard]

Epoques médiévale et renaissance

[@MatthewVanston]

Skaldic Bard aussi est pas mal niveau chansons médiévales.

[@AmyThePuddytat]

34:11 Charles, not John Martel.

[@MrAurelien75015]

Super cette vidéo ! Merci du fond du coeur ;)

[@Medulle38]

Très bon documentaire !!! Félicitations !!!!

[@gaufrid1956]

Mervielleux! Vercingetorix, Charles Martel, et Jeanne d'Arc, les sauveurs de la France!

[@CROM-on1bz]

Let's not forget Charles de Gaulle

[@gaufrid1956]

@@CROM-on1bz Oui bien sur!

[@French.Atlantean]

@@CROM-on1bznot him

[@gaul9318]

Vercingétorix le traître et Charles Martel l'imposteur impopulaire

[@hede1574]

Vercingétorix a perdu, la gaule est devenue romaine. Charles Martel n'a pas arrêté les arabes, ils sont restés en France pendant encore des décennies après la défaite de Poitier, ils remontaient la vallée du Rhône jusqu'au Vosges en pillant et massacrant, et ils vivaient dans le sud ouest de la France. Charles Martel est intervenu à Poitier pour des raisons politiques , il était en concurrence avec le duc d'aquitaine. Jeanne D'Arc a effectivement contribué à faire couronner Charles VII.

[@random2829]

Celtic French here - some of us know the original term for "Lyon". Interestingly, my direct ancestor that was forced out of France in the "Huguenot Wars" went on to England to become a weaver. (For those who may be aware of the history of "Lyon").

[@mikebane2866]

Celtic French? So what province do these so-called “Celtic” French come from? 🤔

[@Shramp]

​@@mikebane2866 french celts are mostly in Brittany (Bretagne) which you might notice sounds like "Britain" also of celtic origin.

[@wyattcole5452]

@@mikebane2866Gauls were Celtic, because Celtic refers to a culture group, and later some of the Britons left Britain to go to Brittany, some stayed and became Cornish, others stayed in Wales and Ireland and some in Ireland went to Scotland, ofc this covers a large portion of history and the reasons for this are numerous

[@random2829]

@@mikebane2866 Bretagne, Auvergne and Rhone-Alpes have a strong Celtic influence. You have to research more history to learn how the Celtic tribes settled in these regions.

[@Not-Ap]

The religious wars were really a blight upon French history. As bad as the protestants treated the catholics in the UK. The catholic French in turn treating the protestants of France in a similar way was just as bad.

[@soldatdemarine4801]

Hello 🙂 Very perfect vidéo 👍 Thank you , Merci ! Cordialy

[@atjh9641]

Magnifique! Merci, merci beaucoup!

[@gabrielbalbec883]

Thanks for this wonderful little summary. One detail, though, deserves correction : Joan of Arc was burnt at the stake in Rouen, not Paris. Everything else is expounded with clarity, accuracy, and a refreshing touch of lyricism.

[@tibsky1396]

For me, it was ironically when the State became centralized, when Louis XIV locked the nobility in Versailles, that the nobles began to truly live in another world. Before that, even since the Middle Ages, the nobles always remained more or less close to the population. However, it is notable that only a handful of Parisian bourgeois wanted to remove the King. Originally, the people certainly did not want to kill him, they simply wanted to eat more. They did not yet have enough political maturity for this kind of reflection on the notions of freedom or equality, the vast majority outside Paris were still very Catholics, even Royalist.

[@FortressofLugh]

This was just one way to understand the events and put forward a continuity which didn't discard such a significant event. As I also mentioned, this was subverted. I am sympathetic to monarchism myself, but I do think they became detached from the people no less than the capitalists. In Canada we have a king... For it to work there has to be a mechanism for the removal of a line of kings. In tribal society, because there was basically no state to speak of, the council of the tribe would gather and just demand he step down if he was doing a bad job. The tribe as a whole was always the ultimate authority.

[@zuarbrincar769]

It is important to remember that in many regions, especially in Vendée, there were counter-revolutionary and pro-king POPULAR uprisings.

[@tomnoxx8734]

Et la descendance de cette bourgeoisie est toujours au pouvoir, pour le pire de la France !

[@MatthewVanston]

I can understand why Louis XIV did with the nobles what he did, given his trauma caused by the Fronde, but it was indeed a mistake. Apart from the great nobles (dukes, counts), most nobles were not particularly rich and would often help their people in the fields.

[@stevenjohns-savage7024]

Thanks 👍

[@alpine_essence]

Amazing job! What about a video on Northern-Italian people?

[@g.aathoz1211]

It is a bit misleading implying that the Germanic Franks did not contribute to the French language while at the same time bringing up a few hundred Gallic words as proof of Celtic influence. Estimates put words of Germanic origin in French at about 20%, which could be higher considering that many Indo-European core words was similar in different European languages and as such these cognates' could have many different potential sources, as such this is very much open to debate. Weird language shifts seem to be more common in regions with many different languages present, opposed to regions with only one or two languages, like the language shifts in Hungary and Turkey where a minority elite imposed their language on their respective diverse populations. Having three or more probably is unsustainable in the long-run and one or two languages will win out in the end, continental Celtic languages just drew the short end of the stick being the third one out giving way to Germanic and Romance language supremacy. France being multi-ethnic at the time probably just accelerated the decline of Celtic speakers, a similar thing happened in Romania where Romance languages also won out against Germanic, Slavic and other languages although all being present with at times a large amount of speakers. I would bet that in such regions it is a pretty complicated almost random selection of which languages that win out in the end, French, Romanian and Hungarian might by chance just as well turned Germanic, the Balkan could just as well have retained Romance and Greek not turning Slavic or Anatolia could just as well have retained Greek as lingua franca as Turkish did not prevail in more homogeneous regions such as in Persia or Arab lands. Another problem with determining origins and influence is the genetic similarity between Corded Ware derived people groups, Germanics and Celts is very similar genetically and share quite a lot in their steppe ancestry, determining the exact proportions of ancestry is next to impossible although looking at some more unique genes might give some rough estimation. I guess the core of the challenge is definitional, do one consider the origin of the French Roman, Germanic or Celtic? I think good arguments can be made for either of them.

[@vincentfossaert6004]

Here in French Flanders our native language is litteraly derivative from the Frankish language

[@janvanaardt3773]

In South Africa French Huguenots came here but French died out. here replaced by Dutch Many Afrikaners have French surnames

[@domitiusafer]

The Gallic people are mostly Celtic but from the time of Gaul lived on its territory of Germanic tribes in the east, Iberian and Ligurian in the south near the Mediterranean. Then it is aggregated the Roman occupiers who take advantage of the civil war between Gallic tribes have with their Gallic allies as the Volsques or the Eduens already romanized by years of alliance with the Romans (The Gauls of southern Gaul allied with the Romans had already opposed in the 3rd century BC the passage in the south of Gaul of General Carthaginians Hannibal slowing down his advance and inflicting severe losses on him ) The victory in the Gallic Civil War of the army of Julius Caesar and his Gallic allies over the Gallic tribes hostile to the Romans will thus create an original civilization , the Gallo-Roman civilization that will impregnate the history of the future France , the Gauls becoming more Roman than the Romans with emperors born in Gaul or from Gallic families who will reign in Rome . The Roman kingdom of General Syagrius in Gaul survived by 10 years the fall of the Roman Empire of the West in 476 since this kingdom was conquered by the Germanic tribe of the Franks of Clovis in 486..Gaul will be dotted with many Roman monuments built by the Gauls to imitate the Roman civilization some of which are still in place 2000 years later as the remarkable and spectacular Aqueduc of the Pont du Gard or the amphitheatres of Arles and Nimes, The latter being the best preserved building of this type in the Roman world to such an extent that a few years ago the city of Rome for an advertising campaign used the images of the"'amphitheatre of Nîmes much better preserved than the original Colosseum in Rome on the model of which had been built the"amphitheatre of Nîmes was assimilated the Gauls, this will cause scandal in Italy .The political intelligence of the Frankish king Clovis who will abandon his Paian religion and convert with his Frankish people to Catholicism dominant religion of the population in Gaul since the Roman emperor Constantine, will rally the Catholic clergy and the Gallo-Roman population and allow it to unify the ancient Roman Gaul again in a new Frankish kingdom by driving out the non-Catholic Germanic tribes that were present in Gaul as the Visigoths in the south of the country , the Burgundians who gave their name to Burgundy, the Alamans who gave their name to Alsace.Thus French historians tend to consider the baptism of Clovis in 496 as the starting point of France which succeeds the Romanized Gaul. The minority Franks will melt into the Gallo-Roman society by marrying women of the Gallo-Roman Catholic aristocracy as they could not do ex the Visigoths in the south of France attached to their Arian religion consider as heretic by the pope and who married each other and refused marriages with the Gallo-Roman population who saw the Catholic Franks who drove the Visigoths from Gaul to Spain as liberators. The French civilization is very proud of its Roman heritage which brought writing, written law whose Roman principles continue to govern the laws in France today; Indeed the revolutionary ideology in 1789 aims to overthrow the French royalty which is presented by the revolutionaries as a perversion of the ideal Roman political model the Res Publica which"it is necessary to restore. This is why we speak of French Re-volution which literally means back to the starting point.Revolutionaries proclaim the republic based on the Roman Res Publica and Napoleon Bonaparte is not proclaimed king of France but emperor of the French by reference to the Roman imperial model (so that he will call his son King of Rome when France seized the city of Rome by expelling the pope who was taken prisoner); Napoleon then created the codification of laws including the civil code in 1804 still in force in France in imitation of the code of the Roman emperor Theodosius.If the imitation of the Romans by the French revolutionaries led them to suppress the vouvoiement considered aristocratic by replacing it with the mandatory tutoiement or to suppress Monsieur or Madame to replace them with Citoyen and Citoyenne , these imitations have gradually disappeared but the judicial and administrative organization and French institutions and French law remain impregnated with Roman law. For example, besides that France is a republic, the French departments are modeled on the former territories of the Roman cities in Gaul, there is a senate in France, the use of popular consultation by the referendum etc..Nevertheless the Celtic imprint remains very strong in the region of Brittany where tradition says that the Celtic populations of England took refuge in this region when it was abandoned in the 4th century AD by the Roman legions, was invaded by Saxon Germanic invaders, jutes and angles. It is in Brittany that is located the mythical forest of Brocéliande or would have lived Merlin the enchanter and the fairy Morgane and where many gestures of the legend of the Celtic king Arthur

[@ShireTommy1916_Somme-Mametz]

They are Gallo-roman.

[@domitiusafer]

@@ShireTommy1916_Somme-Mametz Yes, that’s right, the French were shaped by the Roman civilization that the Gauls took over. The French are more Gallo Roman than Gallic.

[@trenteast9386]

Anglo-American here, looking forward to learning about my little bit of French heritage. Many thanks for this video and this entire series! Cheers

[@ShireTommy1916_Somme-Mametz]

You are not anglo. Don't claim our identity, frenchman

[@mindmesh7566]

I love your vids!!🤙🤘🔥✊👍✌️😎

[@tobyplumlee7602]

Excellent ❤❤❤

[@ronigrover7749]

Thanks Fortress of Lugh for being a positive voice for Europeans and their diaspora!! Thank you to the French people for their contributions to Northern New England. Best wishes for the elections!! France for the French!!

[@castelnou3531]

Merci beaucoup !

[@CaesarT973]

Vanakam 🦚 Thank you for sharing

[@ruthenensis]

Great video about origin of France and French ! As a French I have to admit that you did a great and rigorous job (not made of cliché) ! Even if there are few mistakes like for Joan Of Arc, and several ethno-culture in south of France in Neolithic period (statue menhirs, Dolmen, etc) you didn't speak about, this is a really good summary of our history ! So great diversity of origins in Europe !

[@tt-yr4bz]

La France est géographiquement au carrefour de l'europe et est de ce fait un mélange des peuples latins, germaniques, et saxons. L'histoire de France est incroyable, elle est riche, elle est belle, vive la France vive l'Europe

[@reynaldparisel3852]

Vive la France et... à bas l'Europe ! Le Frexit ou la mort !

[@nickduf]

Celte principalement, et les saxons sont germains !

[@chrisdel2564]

Scandinave en normandie

[@tomnoxx8734]

Oui mais chuuut...faut pas trop le dire, ça les gars... Vous allez froisser nos nouveaux colocataires !

[@alexisandrey2181]

Joan of Arc has been executed in Rouen, not Paris*

[@TomElliott_7HRO7LHAU5]

Would love to see another chapter to this one - after going through a couple of the fresh takes created by Asha Logos - who seems to be one of few who touch on points that get to some of the more directly accessible root issues at hand

[@Grognard-ne3pf]

If anyone's very (very), very much into French history from Gallic times I strongly recommend Schwerpunkt's videos series.

[@Lelitteraireducoin]

Ok so the french basically went from Clovis who killed his brother and then the parents of his brother because, I quote, "he did not defended himself very well when I attacked him" to build cathedrals, satellites, space rockets, Renaissance castles,having the largest variety of cheese in all Europe and being the head of romanticism and of ideas of liberty in the Old continent. That being said, I lament that we had such bad relationship with English people cuz I think they're brave and creative. They tanked the vikings for so long and created a rich culture.

[@CROM-on1bz]

For thousands of years the populations of France and England have been genetically linked from the Parisii, Volques, Ambienii and other tribes were on both sides of the channel, for the most part the English nobles are descended from the French, languages ​​also share many common words. It is this resemblance that made us the best enemies for almost a millennium. The longest and most fierce wars are always fought within families.

[@chriselliott4621]

But who brought the Romans to our doorstep? ~ English/Scottish descent

[@CROM-on1bz]

@@chriselliott4621 Do you really think the Romans needed someone to start a conquest?

[@Mouchos]

"If me and my Franks were there, we would have avenged him" Clovis the Chad about Jesus

[@chriselliott4621]

@@Mouchos Learn about Gauls and germanic tribes before the Romans infiltrated (also Indo-European history before outsiders and false kingdoms); and brought the churches of Blood to Europe. Slaughtering, enslaving and raping our ancestors then creating false kingdoms which evidently now are destroying Europe. Our Farming, Hunter, Druidic or Shamanistic lifestyle was fine for thousands of years.. now look at Europe. It's dying, and it's original inhabitants are becoming a minority or inter racially mixing taking away the purity genes that made Europeans who they always were (Prior to Rome/Church influences). More divided than ever. As the franks do, gloat about destroying and conquering... now France and the French/frankish tree is reaping what it sowed for 1600+ years of Holy Roman Church (which is not the European ancestry way at all), and the rest of Europe is on it's knees because of it. Not entirely blaming the Frankish Lines, but We could of been unified and kept the old ways of living.. yet pride, profit and power corrupts absolutely.

[@Jacki2420]

Love your videos Can you do one on French Canadians (Québécois)?

[@tinygrim]

Thank you.

[@gerharddeusser9103]

Addendum: Joan of Arc was not only rehabilitated some 24 years after her death (in the cathedral of Nôtre Dame de Paris), she was canonized as a Saint in 1920. She is one of the patron saints of France, patron saint of Rouen and Orléans AND of "telegraphy and Radio" (formulated in 1920) which means today: of Television and the INTERNET. Bow your heads and bend your knees users.... Oh, - as I see you already done that ..... 😮😊😇

[@thomaslacornette1282]

And France not only was saved by Joan of Arc but by the Scottish, their army joined in the 1420's: more than 25 000 men (which is huge army for the time period) and also by Britons that even if they were still independent were partly of french culture. In Joan's army there was still a lot of Scottish troops and lords and Charles VII personal guard was Scottish. We could add that French was the "international language" of the medieval world like English is know, that's why we say "lingua franca". Americanization (globalization) since WW2 and mass immigration from ex colonies and refugees of US wars have put France in very problematic situations were Islam might now be the first religion as Christians just go to church ofr their wedding or burial. Sometimes i feel like world elites want to destroy france because it always been a strong Nation, if you can break France you can break any country. Honestly i'm not totally sure that France might not disappear diluted ethnically, culturally (go visit subburbs of big french towns people there are like from "another world" they don't even speak the same french: a slang french with foreign words into it) and politically in the EU. When you look our history i wonder if we are really french, nowadays we just quiet puppets, while inthe history we were warriors even if we lost many times.

[@carthkaras6449]

Hello Lugdunum, merci. From Belgium.

[@TheTwitch1000]

Please do Germany and Spain next 🙏 wonderful video as always

[@Lur-vz5oy]

Also, a big chunk of southern France remained pre-indoeuropean in language.

[@themaskedman5954]

Is it? What are those pre IE languages you are talking about?

[@Lur-vz5oy]

@@themaskedman5954 Basques

[@themaskedman5954]

@@Lur-vz5oy that I know but I was asking are there any non IE languages located exclusively in France

[@Lur-vz5oy]

@@themaskedman5954 Not exclusively but all of the aquitaine region was preindoeuropean speaking when the Gauls were around, only the modern Basque regions survives. I think that when a quarter of France was non-celtic it's unfair to not even bring it up.

[@smal750]

​@@Lur-vz5oy wtf are you talking about the basques dont even make up 1% of the french population and the region is litteraly smaller than the paris city

[@domitiusafer]

There is often a lot of jealousy toward the French because France is a country that has benefited from its temperate climate, its abundance of water, with fertile soil, so that its agriculture allowed to feed a large population that has continued to grow over the centuries because people died very little from hunger and well fed were more resistant to diseases "Happy as God in France" says the German proverb which explains why France has always attracted the greed of neighboring states who wanted to seize these fertile agricultural lands. This explains why very few French in history leave their countries driven by poverty unlike other countries such as Scandinavians, Irish, Italian, Portuguese, English, Spanish so that"Unlike, for example, the British who populated many colonized countries of the planet, notably in the North American America with the present-day Canada and the United States or the Spanish in South and Central America, the French left France very little to populate other countries, and this lack of French settlement explains why the French colonists, for example, in North America too few compared to the British colonists ended up being overwhelmed by the number. . This is not the case in Europe where France until the beginning of the 19th century is the most populous country in Europe before Russia which earned him many military victories and to reach the rank of 1st world power in the 17th and 18th centuries under the reign of King Louis XIV, because at the time the number of aligned soldiers made the difference , which explains why France managed to defeat by itself immense coalitions of several European countries at war against it.From 1815, France bled to death by the incessant murderous wars of the French revolution and Napoleon long victorious; will begin its demographic decline, its population declining compared to other European countries such as Russia, the United Kingdom and reunified Germany from 1871. For ignoring this demographic decline, Emperor Napoleon III believed himself at the time of his uncle Napoleon Bonaparte, will be crushed during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 because believing to declare war on the kingdom of Prussia alone, it finds itself faced with the totality of the German states coalition by the Prussian Chancellor Bismarck and is submerged because the isolated French without allies have to fight against the Germans at one against 3 , as it will be the case in 1940 when having been recklessly angry with Mussolini’s Italy who was his ally during the 1st World War, France whose leaders by anti-communism also abandoned the Russian alliance of the First World War which had forced the Germans to divide their armies to fight on two fronts in France and Russia, see their army overwhelmed by the Italians and the Germans who, having reached an agreement with Stalin’s USSR in 1939 that rid them of an attack in the east, can thus throw their entire armies on less populated France (41 million inhabitants in 1940 against 60 million Germans) and whose army is therefore smaller, especially since it is quickly abandoned after three weeks of combat by its only British ally who re-embarks its army in Dunkirk. The French thought to compensate their numerical inferiority against the Germans by raising fortifications the Maginot line able according to them to stop the German stop, had however neglected to strengthen the forest of the Ardennes and the river the Meuse considered by the French command as natural obstacles anti-tanks, which the Germans will nevertheless manage to cross, Only a large body of water like the English Channel could stop the German panzers, which allowed the British to protect themselves effectively. Moreover considering the mechanization of the German army with the rapid advance of the German panzers, France in addition which did not have a territory as vast as Russia to have the necessary time to reorganize its defense in depth as the Russians did in 1941 will suffer the fate of the other countries of Europe whose territory was not large enough as the Russia and without protective sea like Great Britain (Czechoslovakia, Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Luxembourg, Greece, Yugoslavia). The ease of feeding without effort has also shaped the temperament and lifestyle of the French . Nature being generous in France, so that the French have no effort to make to feed themselves, they were able to devote their time to developing intellectual activities, because they had free time to occupy since they did not have to spend their day working to feed themselves and their families. The ease of feeding without effort has also shaped the temperament and lifestyle of the French . Nature being generous in France, so that the French have no effort to make to feed themselves, they were able to devote their time to developing intellectual activities, because they had free time to occupy since they did not have to spend their day working to feed themselves and their families. Hence both a lack of enthusiasm for work, we work just so that it is enough to feed ourselves and not to earn money and profit that is not a goal in itself for the majority of French who prefer to enjoy life, their families rather than killing themselves and altering their health and quality of life by working excessively.This habituation to take advantage of the generous fertile soil of the country made that France remained a nation of peasants wary of the industrial revolution hence a certain industrial delay of France during the 19th century aggravated by the defeats of Napoleon I and Napoleon III who deprived France of abundant coal resources in Belgium and on the German left bank of the Rhine with the Saar removed from France in 1815 then the Moselle in Lorraine removed from France in 1871 while the poor agricultural British subsoil was revealed like Germany, rich in minerals and coal, which were essential to the development of industry in the 19th century.In doing so the French also have a conception of long time and are not in the immediacy because their territory devoid of sea, of mountains to the north and north is covered with plains suitable for land invasions was several times invaded but the French malgréles important and permanent invasions suffered since the Huns d'Attila in 451 until"'to Hitler in 1940 were still able to rise and regain their rank among the great world powers. Thus France is now little known the 5th country of the world by its global area with its maritime domain which is the 2nd in the world behind that of the United States (Thus France has common borders with Brazil in French Guiana, with Australia with the land Adélie in the South Pole, the Netherlands with the island of Saint Martin in the Antilles while its maritime domain in the Pacific Ocean with the islands of Tahiti, Bora Bora etc..is the equivalent of the entire European continent);An important strategic advantage because in addition to the rare minerals available to the French seabed , France thus has bases all over the world to shelter and refuel its nuclear submarines because France is also the 3rd state in number of nuclear warheads behind Russia and the United States.Because France, which always has brilliant researchers because it values the intellectual activities of free time, has been a pioneer in the nuclear field as it has made many inventions such as photopraphy with Niepce, cinema with the Lumière brothers. The problem in France is that many French inventions due to lack of capital due to the natural mistrust of the French towards industry will be exploited by foreign private investors. Nuclear being an exception because because of its military use, It was the French State that invested the huge capital also developed civil nuclear so that the electricity produced in France is the cheapest in the world which annoys the European competitors of France within the European Union especially the Germans who In 1979, in the midst of the oil crisis, the French companies were given a competitive advantage, France had become the world’s third largest exporter behind the United States and Germany, ahead of Japan.

[@johannlhermenault5783]

As a french, i agree with this point of view

[@bloger12prokofief15]

Merci du fond du coeur...

[@tulfimbul2123]

Verry nice history lesson as allways. I if I may say so, would like to see the mythological meaning of the "placenta" and the connection to the world tree and how Odin hans there for nine nights and how he fall from there again! In folk lore the midwifes can in the placenta see the future of the child, and that it was not uncomnon to burry the placenta in the "vårdträdet" family tree on the farm in old days. This would be one amazing history lesson 😊

[@TrueNativeScot]

hello varg

[@smal750]

the french (the true ones before the ocean of immigrants who flooded the country since 1850) are in the vast majority celts and germanic tribes and a minority of franks who ruled the country

[@fabs8498]

Not in the south.

[@smal750]

@@fabs8498 s t f u swarthoid your not french and will never be your either a portos or a ri tal immigrant 🤢

[@Cynic-Retired]

Vive la france, viva la liberté

[@purpledu0191]

In terms of culture, architecture, ethnicity and language, the south of France is undeniably Latin, the north is more Germanic.

[@beanondaddy3397]

Nice to know

[@PoxPopuli]

Please tell me you're working on a Origins of the Italians. This is a brilliant series.

[@watch-Dominion-2018]

They originate from the big baguette in the sky 🥖🥖

[@evelynkorjack2126]

n'oublie pas du fromage brie

[@NotLeftarded1]

That's actually funny. Kind of a dry joke but funny. What can I say I like it cheesy and crusty with a little bit of wine on the side. 🤣

[@JerboGod]

Hail, lord pain🥖🧎🏻

[@TheFearsomePredator]

As I French, you forgot Camembert and wine

[@hakanisitmez4597]

Wow this video is amazing, can you do this for Turkish people too? I mean we look like Europeans/ Mediterraneans but also came from Asia.

[@prebennielsen9622]

Excellent video, Saw it a few days before RN takes power in France on July 7th

[@theobolt250]

A little sidestep here. The language that stayed closest to that of the Franks, is a decendant of it, is??? Dutch! Can you believe it? Via Lower East Frankish we get Old Dutch (they're as good as the same) and from there we get Middle Dutch which developed in modern day Dutch. The areas on the most northern fringes of the Frankish heartland, situated around the city of Doornik, play a critical role in this proces: Brabant and Limburg. From there with the gaining influence in Flanders and Holland the proto-dutch state and language got its shape.

[@kimashitawa8113]

Funny how things turn out like that huh? Most of us, their closest descendants (at the very least linguistically) don't even know about it. But it isn't really important to the subject of this video right now Maybe whenever he makes a video about the Low Countries

[@mistersir3020]

Don't you mean Lower _West_ Frankish? Also, where is the "heartland" of the Franks? I don't think it can be South of Doornik so... Don't you mean Doornik is on the _Southern_ fringes?

[@kimashitawa8113]

@@mistersir3020 Yeah he probably meant West, i didn't even see that. Also Doornik is indeed not in the the north of the heartland, that would probably be somewhere in the Netherlands like present-day Gelderland.

[@mistersir3020]

@@kimashitawa8113 Theo's compass is completely inverted xd

[@tibsky1396]

Yes the Low Franconian dialects spoken by the Salian Franks in Gaul were more ancient versions of Old Dutch and Flemish. Then they assimilated with the Gallo-Romance dialects, and and then Langues d'Oïl (Northern France), or Lenga d'Oc (Southern France), and Arpitan (Franco-Provençal) were born.

[@matthewgaulke8094]

No disrespect to French people but I don't understand the opinion that French sounds sexy. Maybe as a heterosexual man I just didn't hear it spoken by enough beautiful women and instead heard it from grumpy French men.

[@FortressofLugh]

I don't understand either, but I heard it said my entire life.

[@smal750]

​@@FortressofLugh same

[@mikebane2866]

It sounds like they’re speaking with food in their mouths

[@tibsky1396]

It's not just being sexy in the voice, it's the choice of the words talking about love, even in adversity, or even when it's impossible. This comes from the literary tradition coming from since the Middle Ages: Chivalric Romances, Epic, Gestes and Cycles, Courtly love songs and poetry by the Troubadours, who were born in the Duchies and Counties of the Kingdom of France (Aquitaine, Provence, Toulouse, Normandy, Burgundy, etc. ...) whether in French or Occitan languages. Then over the centuries, this has continued until today in novels, opera, and poetry. Then this was strengthened with the romantic image of Paris by foreigners since the end of the 19th century.

[@smal750]

@@tibsky1396 You are def french

[@frankbelanger9501]

In Quebec, the English allowed the clergy to manage, religion, education and hospitals. In his report to Victoria, he stated that they should be assimilated, she said no, and that is why we still speak french there

[@BaltimoresBerzerker]

I know it's not your channels focus, but this video made me think about New Caledonia. To my little knowledge of the topic, part of the reason the indigenous are rioting is because the French inhabitants were recently permitted to vote. I would love for someone of your caliber to make a video on the topic!

[@MPLS_Andy]

France is pretty cool I guess.

[@NotLeftarded1]

It has literally everything Europe has to offer it's been a cultural crossroads since forever. Hope I get to see it one day before I break this mortal coil.

[@chriselliott4621]

@@NotLeftarded1 It's okay now, you can come out from under your rock.

[@TheFearsomePredator]

You should go out of your home or touch grass

[@louischerriere9054]

Consider that the battle of Alésia is the largest european battle until Eylau

[@richardbennett4365]

How do we know that elongated object in bronze color is a headless and not a depiction of a phallus?

[@MC_Jean_Raclette]

Merci. We're often told that there is no such thing as "french people" by bigots and sophists (not to say traitors) that have no problem recognizing, even supporting other peoples' identitarian claims, even though they're more vague, less historically, culturally and genetically rooted than ours...

[@kimashitawa8113]

I know we like to meme on France, but they have a very respectable history as a nation and great historical figures Jeanne d'Arc is one of my favorites all time, love her story

[@k.d.kelley2830]

We meme on it because it is so historically significant.

[@BC-R]

if you wish to know French history (or any other country's), don't listen to youtube or social summary - but read serious history books - in order to compare different points of view ... ignorance prefers easiest ways - culture dinamics are hard to understand ... history requires a good attitude ... very very rare ...

[@flatearththeory2641]

completely missed the illumination, and the greats like Euler, Descartes, Fermat, who really improved franch culture and the recent politicians which turn it into a socially focused state.

[@richardbennett4365]

Well, yes, those people lived in France, and then there the people descended from these, whom the Romans referred to as the Gauls, which by the way has the same root that gives Wales, like Guillaume and William. G and W equivalency. But, then the modern day French are largely of Germanic roots, right? The Franks migrated westward from modern day Germany and Austria and landed in the area we call France today. Even the name of the French comes from these Frankish (German) tribes of the east. Yes.

[@justbe1451]

Sitting in Canada, I wonder how life would be different if France won?

[@harrybalsagne616]

Imagine thousands of Justin Trudeaus at every level of government.

[@justbe1451]

@@harrybalsagne616 hahaha omg no

[@NotLeftarded1]

If it makes you feel any better I'm a French Canadian who hates his own people because he hates their Cry-Baby mentality.

[@tibsky1396]

@@harrybalsagne616 Or Wilfrid Laurier and Jean-Cantius Garand at best.

[@chriselliott4621]

Imagine 100% liberal vote, every election.

[@drengr811]

France for the French! Excellent video, man, keep up the good work!

[@sirtree9080]

That statue of Jehanne Darc is New Orleans, USA!

[@jlm897]

Joan of Arc wasn't burnt in Paris but in ROUEN (present day "Place du Marché")

[@petrosidius]

"The city of Lyon had the original name of Lugdunum" Leonardo di'Caprio points at screen!

[@elkingoh4543]

One of Rebels settlements of Rome TW

[@karigirl3569]

After the results of yesterday’s elections, the French should consider digging up some of their old heroes. It seems as though they will be needing them.

[@alexgarn43]

The moment of true arrive, but the people is divided; maybe more than during the war of religion.

[@Furia59000]

Je me permets une correction. Jeanne d'Arc fût brûlée à Rouen le 30 mai 1431, capitale du Duché de Normandie mais pas à Paris.

[@razvanrotundu925]

Very good video but I think you are really downplaying the thorough Romanization of Gaul and slightly overestimating the persistence of the Celtic element.

[@geekosa63]

France was created by Clovis 1500 years ago. A very old country indeed

[@virgill2452]

@@geekosa63 that's really wrong

[@geekosa63]

@@virgill2452 You are wrong. France was created by Clovis, whether you like it or not. He is the first monarch of France/Francia

[@virgill2452]

@@geekosa63 well, I know history you Can not call the frankish kingdomnof Clovis France, and it did not last for long his kingdom was split After his death. It was definitely not France. France was created After the split of Charlemagne empire, forming France and Germany.

[@geekosa63]

@@virgill2452 at the death of Clovis, French territorywas splitted and reunited again during a whole century of troubles. Then Charlemagne took additional lands, whicch were splitted at his death but never reunited. That's why France (which was named Francia at that time) was created by Clovis (who is officially the 1st king of France history) but Germany was created 300 years later, during the split of Charlemagne empire.

[@sebe2255]

@@geekosa63Officially? Nothing about that is official. Clovis wouldn’t have known what France was or who the French people would be because neither existed when he invaded Gaul. Saying he was the first king of France is ridiculous and anachronistic. He was king of the Franks, no more no less. And the developments that lead to creation of a “French” kingdom and a “French” identity happen centuries after his death. And even as a direct continuation France isn’t a successor of the Frankish kingdom of Clovis but of East Francia, one third of the post Louis the Pious split of the Frankish Empire (another title Clovis never held). Using your logic Clovis was also the first king of Germany (East Francia) and holy roman emperor because that is just as much a direct continuation (under your anachronistic logic) as west Francia is. But of course he was neither the first Emperor nor the First king of France

[@S.J.L]

Reconquest.

[@lelitteraireducoin2297]

Denazification

[@S.J.L]

@@lelitteraireducoin2297 If you mean the Islamo fascists then yes.

[@oui359]

@@lelitteraireducoin2297 Vive la race blanche et vive les Gaulois, les Francs, les Burgondes, les Bretons et les Normands.

[@mistersir3020]

@@lelitteraireducoin2297 Quite the reverse. Time to solve the J Problem.

[@chriselliott4621]

Have you seen France in the past few years? They fight for nothing, they are surrounded by invaders, and ignore it while pissing all over the Nation their ancestors bled millennia for.

[@theoldbear4213]

Yah give a channel a chance because the subject is interesting, and the narrator sounds nice. Yah ignore the comments cuz they don't necessarily reflect the creator... Then this. It's not worth arguing anything, I aught to have noticed sooner. My mistake.

[@astronomusedallas2152]

The Parisi, even Rome could not move them, nor will the next invaders

[@19ate4]

“It was subverted” is a understatement 😇

[@woodendoors9532]

France for the French!

[@Rugged-Mongol]

Says the Germanic Franconian tribe that made up the proto-French XD

[@ommsterlitz1805]

@@Rugged-Mongol Germanic just means French in the end, as France population was comparable to China's one in the medieval age and all it's neighboring countries became French influenced

[@Brenden667]

That last paragraph sounded pretty political. 🤨

[@BrotherAllisWell]

@@Brenden667Yes! And thank god there are people with the courage to speak up when others are silently suffering!

[@CentauriSphere]

Funny cause there is only french in france

[@ronreagan7950]

My mom is from a small city in the southern part of Normandy as far back as her family can trace (with some from Brittany). She recently took a DNA test and this ‘native’ French woman is: mostly Celtic, a third Latin (Roman), a small part Scandinavian and 2% Neanderthal. There is no ‘pure’ French or pure anything anywhere. Everyone is a mix of something or another.

[@romain6275]

Ces tests sont bidons

[@Kara-de5cz]

​@@romain6275 ah bon ?

[@JohnSmith-kp7yr]

So… a European? Wow. You really proved the racists wrong.

[@Kara-de5cz]

@@JohnSmith-kp7yr but how do you define European ?

[@JohnSmith-kp7yr]

@@Kara-de5czYamnaya Descended, Indo European assimilated ethno cultural groups.

[@evelyneverlasting9038]

Can you do gothic history

[@FortressofLugh]

Yes :)

[@evelyneverlasting9038]

​@FortressofLugh in another video on druids, you mentioned the 30 year calander and I wanted to inform you its most likely based on the orbit of jupiter, 30 years Also you mentioned yields from legal cases = yields from the land This is also mentioned in the bible often. Honestly i believe this to be true. I have theory on how this happens but it's quite long and in depth

[@wilkizz]

Thank you for balancing west-atlantic capitalist ideas on our bright country. May peace be on you, comrade. ✨

[@DarkChivo653]

Basically most French people are actually Gallic? Kind of like British isles

[@mbd501]

The French people were originally a mixture of Gauls, Romans, pre-Indo European tribes and Franks. Pre-Indo European includes the Basques and other related tribes that mostly lived in the South of France.

[@TrueNativeScot]

The Scots, Irish and Welsh have barely any Celtic ancestry. We are a population of Bell Beakers who arrived here around 2500BC, and it was during the Iron Age and onwards that our original native form of Indo-European language was replaced by proto-Celtic due to contact with Celts via trade. The French are genetically Celtic but we are not

[@mbd501]

@@TrueNativeScot That's an unusual theory. I don't think many scholars would agree with that.

[@Tanargue0]

@@mbd501 it's the conclusion of the latest genetic studies on ancient Britain

[@mbd501]

@@Tanargue0 Haven’t heard about it. The prevailing theory is that when the Celts arrived, they outnumbered the previous inhabitants and took over, for the most part. That’s why they speak Celtic languages in Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

[@yvettetexas6020]

My great grandfather was French. Im American. People call the french cowards because of the American revolution. So dumb why would they stay & fight in land that is not theirs.

[@Lili-vd3zh]

Les américains ont une vision ignorante de la France. C'est le pays qui a eu le plus de batailles et qui en a gagné le plus.

[@Hispania_45]

Good video! Will you do origins of Iberians next? Genetics etc??

[@Im_No_Expert_72]

Why the obsession with importing East Africans?

[@JohnSmith-kp7yr]

Ethnomasochistic self sacrifice for the god of Liberalism

[@thierryf67]

???

[@tomnoxx8734]

C'est pas eux qui ont l'obsession de venir plutôt ? Ou alors faudrait demander aux grandes entreprises et à la bourgeoisie Parisienne.

[@BaltimoresBerzerker]

I'm part French on my maternal side, with the surnames of Geroux, DeCote, and another that escapes me at the moment. 🇫🇷 🇫🇷 🇫🇷 i hope the French people win the struggle to determine their own destiny as a sovereign people and remain distinct physically and culturally.

[@johannlhermenault5783]

No we don't. "Elites" are playing for themselve, by the media with the power of money, they secure their place at the top while destroying France. EU is, politically and financialy, eating us step by step with the help of our "French Elite", and our culture is dispapearing under the massive immigration waves.

[@veronicalogotheti1162]

In the south they spoke occitante Before french

[@rollobaker2031]

the name is Rollo original Hrolf founder of Normandy-- lots of error in presentation need to check historical facts and details

[@kaarlimakela3413]

Hang in there, France. The Resistance lives on in America! Liberty, Equality, Siblinghood.

[@mugwugthemagnificful]

Well timed, between the first and second round of elections 🇫🇷