Origins of the French 

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

French folks, don't be ashamed to be French, to cherish, practice and uphold your traditions, customs, language, history and culture. Your contributions, impacts, things you gave to this world cannot be overestimated on the global scale. Love and respect to you from 🇰🇿. Paix et amour! Vive la France, France pour les Français! 🇫🇷

Merci beaucoup! Mon ancestors. Cajun from Southern Louisiana.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(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.

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.

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

34:11 Charles, not John Martel.

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.

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!!

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.

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.

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

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.

I am very impressed by the quality of your video! the work is immense and the result is more than satisfactory, it is very good! thank you for that my friend! just a few small details need to be corrected, Joan of Arc was not burned in Paris, but in Rouen. Concerning the Gaulish language, a recent study over the last 10 years shows the colossal error which was made concerning the origins of the French language, it is not 100 Gallic words but tens of thousands of Gallic words which constitute today still the basis of the French language and almost all city names are all of Gallic origin, this had been deliberately concealed for political reasons.

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

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

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").

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.

Great well-documented video. Very intersting

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

Such great videos ☺️

France for the French!

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 ..... 😮😊😇

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 !

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

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.

France is pretty cool I guess.

Please do Germany and Spain next 🙏 wonderful video as always

Vive la france, viva la liberté

Joan was captured by the Burgundians, not the English. But very good account.

They originate from the big baguette in the sky 🥖🥖

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

Reconquest.

Franks are Dutchmen and Germans. More franks probably came to Britain with the Anglo-Saxons than to Gaul.

La France aux Français.

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

Why the obsession with importing East Africans?

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

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

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...

The French are romanized celts (known as gallo-romans) just like Romanians (daco-romans) are romanized dacians. The romanized populations adopted the vulgar latin while retaining grammatical elements and words from their native languages! The Germanic populations formed an elite and created the political Kingdom of Frence, but the majority of the population were gallo-romans, just like the Vikings created and give name to Russia, but the ordinary majority population were slavs in that case.

Excellent ❤❤❤

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.

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!

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

An exciting video.👍👏👏👏 A very strange and disturbing conclusion : why would France disappear ? In a puff of smoke ? 🤔❓ Sorry you say that Jeanne d'Arc was executed in Paris !!!🙄 Joan of Arc was burned alive on the Old-Market Square in Rouen, at the age of 19, on May 30, 1431.

🇬🇷❤️🇫🇷 Η Γαλλία για τους Γάλλους.

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

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

That statue of Jehanne Darc is New Orleans, USA!

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

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.

Great country, fascinating culture. I am happy and proud my nation came across since early middle ages and in good, close relations with the great French nation.🇦🇲❤🇫🇷

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.

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 😊

Hello Lugdunum, merci. From Belgium.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I hope to God that France can withstand the current invasion.

The French are not Germanic. The Franks are most Dutchmen.

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.

Vanakam 🦚🌳 Thank you for sharing

Thanks 👍

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.

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

In the south they spoke occitante Before french

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

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

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

Merci du fond du coeur...

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

I wish France was a Kingdom today. A Monchary. So sad & such a shame its not anymore. 😟😔🙏🤲👑⚜️⚜️⚜️👑 R.I.P French Royalists. R.I.P gone Kingdom of France.

The French nation needs urgently to deal with its deeply hostile Muslim minority. Perhaps the rise of the far right to government in the near future will restore the greatness of France. Love from England.

"it is the french people who make France what it is and without whom it would cease to be" true and it means without the french people, France will no longer be France as french myself, this scares me

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.

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

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 ...

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

The French people are slowly disappearing.

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