Charlemagne’s

Hen believes that for Neustria, Burgundy and Aquitania, colloquial Latin remained the spoken language in Gaul throughout the Merovingian period and remained so even well in to the Carolingian period. However, Urban T.

King Clovis

Childeric III

The last Carolingian ruler, Louis V of France, was also in his turn nicknamed le Fainéant (“the Do-Nothing”), because his effective rule was limited to the region around Laon. …

539-594) in his History of the Franks, the Frankish king is said to have turned Christian because he believed that the Christian God had given him a military victory over a rival German tribe, the Alemanni. Clovis took to wife Clotilde, daughter of the king of the Burgundians and a Christian.

Clovis I

The modern French are the descendants of mixtures including Romans, Celts, Iberians, Ligurians and Greeks in southern France, Germanic peoples arriving at the end of the Roman Empire such as the Franks and the Burgundians, and some Vikings who mixed with the Normans and settled mostly in Normandy in the 9th century.

Some of the largest Germanic kingdoms included those of the Franks and Goths after the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

The Franks weren’t Vikings. The Viking Age is a specific time in Scandinavian history, roughly 793 CE to 1066 CE. By the start of the Viking Age, the Frankish kingdoms were fully Latinized and were fully Christian as well. The Franks had moved a long way from their common Germanic roots and religion.

Frank, member of a Germanic-speaking people who invaded the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century. Dominating present-day northern France, Belgium, and western Germany, the Franks established the most powerful Christian kingdom of early medieval western Europe. The name France (Francia) is derived from their name.

Charles Martel

Frankish (reconstructed endonym: *Frenkisk), also known as Old Franconian or Old Frankish, was the West Germanic language spoken by the Franks between the 4th and 8th century.

In 2018, 13% of immigrants in France were born in Algeria; 11.9% in Morocco; 9.2% in Portugal; 4.4% in Tunisia; 4.3% in Italy; 3.8% in Turkey; and 3.7% in Spain. Half of France’s immigrants (50.3%) come from these seven countries.

Yes, French people are Germanic people. Franks were an ancient tribe of Germanic people, but due to later contact with Roman people, the Franks went on mixed up with majority Roman and Galician population. The Franks, following the fall of Roman Empire, were able to found their state.

Allemagne

Gaul

The Roman city of Lutetia (also Lutetia Parisiorum in Latin, in French Lutèce) was the predecessor of present-day Paris.

La République française

France was the most powerful country in Europe, which at that time meant the world, between 1648 (Treaty Of Westphalia ending the 30-year War) to 1815 (Napoleon abdicates). Persia (now Iran) could have challenged that power up to 1700 or so, but had other things to do.

Germany