Did You Know That France... 🤔 🇫🇷
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In this video we'll have a look on some of the most interesting facts about France.
Did you know that France is the country with the most time zones in the world? Even though is way much smaller than Russia, USA or China, France still has teritories on 12 of the 24 timezones on the planet.
If you know other interesting facts about France, feel free to write them in comments.
Hope you'll enjoy the video!
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Things you didn’t know about France !
France is bordering 8 different countries through it’s metropolitan area.
It is also the country with the most time zones in the world, owning territories in 12 of the 24 time zones on the planet.
French was the official language in England for around 300 years. In present, there are more French speakers in Africa than in Europe.
Kilts originated in France, not Scotland.
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Thanks to France we live in a Home not in a Ham
Dude, very cool.
Bruh
Oversimplified
Ham sandwich.. oh wait I forgor we were talking about houses
Oversimplified
Another fun fact:
Frances largest border is with Brazil
As French. This is absolutely true.
It's "French Guiana"
What about Suriname?
@@mikalahking3157 I think Brazil narrowly beats Suriname because Brazil borders French Guiana on two of the three sides
Not fish ?
Tru
Fact: French people are speaking French
Are you sure ?
Damn no way
Oui, je confirme car je suis français, mais comment sais tu ?
Translate
Yes I agree because i'm french but how did toi know that ?
@@pandazaur maybe because I'm Français et que je peux parler cette langue mais que dit-on de l'occitan, du breton, du corse ?
No way ! 🤯
France actually border Netherlands by the Caribbean island of sint maarten.
And brazil
And suriname
He os right
He said Metropolitan France
OMFL HE SAID METROPOLITAN
Be proud of your country my french brothers! 🇩🇪❤️💙🇨🇵
really tried but it's not easy right now 😮💨
but thanks anyway 🇨🇵❤🇩🇪
Hallo
(Back in English)
Are you Deutsch 🇩🇪 ?
(Retour en Français)
L’Allemagne c’est beau et comme je suis 1/4 allemand je me jette des fleurs (expressions française)
@@Rider.Looper2not easy because of Macron ?
Ich lerne deutsch
most of us have to learn to love our country, it's not perfect ofc but when we look around the world, it could always be much worse!
SUN NEVER SETS IN EMPIRE OF FRANCE 🇫🇷🔥👑
That the British Emipre saying 😂😂😂🇬🇧❤️🇫🇷
@@britishlion3600 😂😂 but it isnt true for british empire anymore
@@shinsuketakasugi692 ❤️👌🏻
it did though lmao
No it's 🇬🇧
Funfact: the UK royal guards hat's were stolen from napoleon's army
True 👍
royal guard metal helmet also similar with garde republicaine helmet
They were imitated, not stolen. After Napoleonic war UK was so envious of French glory that they copied their uniform (with more red).
@@gengis737Nope, the hats were spoils of war after the grenadiers defeated the French at Waterloo. 😂
@@phoenixrose1192 So did the Guards say. But check contemporary picture, they don't have the same shape : that's imitation.
Nevertheless the British Guards had an heroic part in Waterloo victory.
"The sun never sets on France"
The sun rise: 🇯🇵
The sun set: 🇲🇦
@@Fulno Sun never set: 🇫🇷
Fr
Fun fact: French kings we’re mostly called kings of the sun.
@@Aperson65323Ah ce n'etait pas uniquement Louis XIV?
France is everywhere in the world
But not anymore in this own country.
@@jimmyfevrier3821 Not yet... but most unfortunately going that way!
@@st-ex8506 oh la droite s'exprime sur ses délires de grand remplacement 🤡
@@LinkywayZ Je n'ai aucune sympathie particulière pour la droite française... car je ne suis pas français. Cependant, j'ai des yeux pour voir et des oreilles pour entendre, et ce que je vois et entends me désole pour ce pays que j'aime. En tant qu'observateur extérieur, mais tout de même averti, la gauche française, elle, me semble être plutôt dans l'hypocrisie et le déni de réalité le plus complet.
@@st-ex8506 ça dépends des partis politiques
VIVE LA FRANCE 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷
La France le pays de la gastronomie et du quoicoubeh 🇨🇵🥐🥖
Why you are speeking french here ? You are not on squizzie video
@@patriceytvangoethem.d3051tg
C'est triste n'est-ce pas...
@@Stonyx71le pays de manifestation
There’s much more to say about France but reminding the world that England is a former France colony is excellent. Thanks mate! Vive la France 🇫🇷
Ahah that's precisely what I was thinking. The priorities are respected.
@@TheAlphamannchen not at all, first of all France won the Hundred Years war. Then the only reason why England had a « England territory » in France was not because of a conquest but because Alienor d’Aquitaine (Eleanor of Aquitaine) divorced with the King of France Louis VII and then married King Henry II of England in 1152. Therefore it was not a colony but an allied territory.
@@TheAlphamannchenBesides the fact that the Normans weren't really French. They were vikings that took your land and women. They later came back for a 100 years and proceeded to beat you up along with the English. Calling that a French victory is a bit of a stretch even by French standards.
@@PB-xh8xt yes french lying cunning gits typical of them to be honest. Vikings were always coming to invade British Isles 1066 was just another attack that happened to kill the King Harold. They only spoke french, that's why English politicians spoke it too for a few centuries as mentioned in this video, nothing about Frenchies conquering Britain.
attends si les anglais ont eu leur independence de nous et que les americains ont eu leur independence des anglais ça veut dire qu'on a indirectement créé les americains qui nous ont sauvés des mains des allemands durant la 2eme guerre mondiale CE QUI VEUT DIRE QUE LA FRANCE S'EST BIEN DEFENDU DURANT LA DEUXIEME GUERRE MONDIALE
I am Indian🇮🇳👳 I am living in France🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷
Sikhs , Jains and Hindus are welcome , not Indian Muslims.
How was the life there?
I want to relocate my family to there in the beginning of 2030s
@@vijip3866 VERY GOOD . BUT I AM NOT IN FRANCE 🇫🇷 I WAS IN FRANCE 7MONTHS BEFORE. NOW I AM IN MUMBAI 🇮🇳. NEXT I WILL GO TO NEW YORK 🇺🇸OR TOKYO 🇯🇵 OR BERN 🇨🇭 after 1Month .
AMEN 🙏
@@vijip3866 i recommend the big cities in the south of france except the very south
Genuinely didn’t know we used to speak French in Britain.. but it kinda makes sense thinking about it
Come on mate everyone knows that
Where did you think William the Conqueror was from
@@chrisklitou7573 Yeah and apparently you can still adress the court in French or somethin
The english motto stills in french "Dieu et mon droit"
@@philobotaniste6233 and the one from the
@@philobotaniste6233The royal motto too: "Honni soit qui mal y pense", in modern english: "Ashamed be the one who think evil about it"
Thank you France for giving us a hand in the America Revolution,no offense my English cousins 🇺🇲🇲🇫🇬🇧❤️
We are fascinated by your country 🫶🏻 And I think it’s mutual, right? Love from France 🇫🇷🇺🇸❤️
@@Harold046LA faute à Napoléon aussi qui pensait qu'en vendait la Louisiane, il ferait d'une pierre deux coups et que les USA allait nous aider en cas d'attaque des Anglais alors que son frère a dit que c'était une bêtise sans nom de vendre la Louisiane... après tout, les Américains, ce sont des british qui ne s'assument pas, l'armement français et Lafayette les ont aidés, mais aussi par la force des choses et la fraternité maçonnique entre George Washington et Lafayette justement.
Mais quelques années plus tard, ils rétabliront des contacts avec la grande Bretagne, il y a eu des voix qui se sont élevé contre l'abandon de la France qui avait le sens de l'honneur mais souvent trahi en faisait des deals avec les british comme avec John Adams.
Les USA parlent anglais et ont méprisé les cajuns et les acadiens leur refusant le Français, ce ne sont pas des alliés... en voyant comment ils nous ont traité en 2003 alors qu'on avait raison, cela devrait encore une fois nous mettre la puce à l'oreille.
Les USA ne sont pas nos alliés
🇺🇲💙🇨🇵
🇬🇧❤️🇫🇷❤️🇺🇸
@@TheoStudiosFilms 🇬🇧❤️🇺🇸❤️🇫🇷
With the tunnel under the Channel, we can consider France also borders the UK.
It was Napoleon dream 😉
damn for once people aren't trash talking france
😂😂
that’s a safe spot
That's very rare on yt shorts but I just saw 1 comment hating on France and said 1 word to piss them off
@tvzm probably a jealous bri*is person
@@ivup
The funny mustache guy?
The people in the comment section don't know he is talking about the countried that border *METROPOLITAN* France and not the entirety of france
Your comment does not matter. They have alzhiemers and will forget
Enfin bref... que nous sommes bien dans notre belle France! En plus je suis dans le sud ouest de la France, donc dans la vrai France profonde avec encore des valeurs et des traditions ❤ ❤❤ vive la France 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷
enfin un autre français
Vous n’arrivez pas à vous en empêcher, faut toujours que votre racisme déborde.
Acceptez donc votre histoire! Vous avez voulu coloniser l’Afrique, vous avez voulu que les africains combattent pour la France aux WW1 et WW2, vous avez voulu que les africains reconstruisent la France après ces guerre-ci, vous avez recruter ces mêmes africains pour faire le travaille sale et difficulties que vous ne vouliez pas faire, ensuite vous les avez parqués dans des ghettos et leurs aviez fait subir multiples injustices sociales au point où leurs enfants ont du voler et dealer pour vivre, vos cops tuent leurs enfants dans de simples contrôles de routines.
Et vous avez encore l’audace d’être des racistes?
Petit à petit le véritable visage des français est dévoilé dans le monde, la France est belle par son multiculturalisme et non pas par leurs personnes radicalement de l’extrême-droite fasciste!
I'm a marocain person so 🇲🇦 💀 your my enemy 💢
@@AsOne57Il a parlé des africains à un moment dans son commentaire ?
Facts I did know about France
Did you know that France's official language is French
Did you know that the biggest city in France is Paris
Did you know that in france they love baguette
Did you know that the national flag of France is a tricolour featuring three vertical bands coloured blue, white, and red?
Did you know that France is in europe
Ça fait chaud au cœur de voir la section commentaire pleine d'amour et de soutient, contrairement à ce que l'on peut voir d'habitude concernant notre pays😊
Oui ça fait plaisir, quelques kassos mais franchement ça va
The only people who "like" your colonial empire are french people. Glad north Africa is slowly taking you over 😊
France: the most beautiful kingdom under the sun
"La France, le plus beau royaume après celui du ciel" Grotius
I'd rather do anything than say that out loud because it would damage my credibility
well, we actually got rid Kings!
African French speaking countries population is about 357 million people. If we add Rwanda, Reunion and Mayotte island it going to be around 362 million people.
Exactly !
Rwanda is already counted in the 357 millions
mais les deux dernières ne comptent pas car françaises
Why excluding Rwanda of all places
Amitiés à tous les francophones du monde entier ✨💐
this is actually making me happy to be french and live there :)
@@user-mc6yj6sm3j Mec..Je pense il faut que tu remettes ta vie en question 😰
France... Most beautiful kingdom after the sky !
Jesus ❤
Merci
guillotinessss
Vive la France 🇫🇷🖤
Long live France from Iran
FREEDOM
🇹🇬🤝🇫🇷
We can note that the UK motto is stil in french "Dieu et mon droit" (meaning god and my right)
It also borders Monaco and Andora in europe
@JPOffical852IN F ING EUROPE
but yeah sunic-oq4zp is right
@@catfacecat.Uhh no
@@xxCEOofRacism69420xx wdym no French Guyana isent in europe
@@catfacecat. What was I doing here again
Another fun fact: 90% of these comments don't understand/ignore the 'Metropolitan France' bit
Him: Things you didn't know about France
Me: Knew that, knew that, knew that
Same
Ah, i see your a man of culture as well
I think I knew about the kilts thing because I have connections to the Clan Fraser of Lovatt, which was started by Simon Frezel, who was born in Anjou, France.
Iuuiuuuiiiuiuiiiuiui yo
Kilts as we know them todaywe’re invented by a man named Thomas Rawlinson an ENGLISHMAN who happened to own a furnace in Inverness, he found the belted plaid which was invented by Scots too cumbersome….
Don’t believe everything you hear on a RUclips short 😂 nothing to do with France/the French
@@gemmawalker8079 Ahh nvm then.
@@gemmawalker8079 "as we know them today" not "originally"
@@TheVoodooMaker yes because the original was called a “belted Plaid” not a kilt, as stated above these were invented by Scots….
The belted plaid is effectively what you see in the BS that is braveheart, a single sheet of material belted round your waist with a wrap over the shoulder
The only thing I didn't know was about the kilt... and it's completely wrong lol.
Another fact I like, Montreal (QC, Canada) is the second biggest city in the world that speaks French after Paris
Proud of being french 🇫🇷😻
France gave us the tartan mass W also help us against English invasion 🏴🤝🇫🇷
Anyways VIVE LA FRANCE ❤🇫🇷🇮🇹
Ah en France on adore les italiens, on se demande maintenant comment on a bien pu tous se faire la guerre, maintenant on doit s unir en Europe parce que c est pas facile à présent dans le monde .il y a beaucoup de guerres et de destructions nous devons nous unir !!
I love France. 🇹🇬🤝🇫🇷
Ah yes, the french flag 🇫🇮
That’s Finland dumbass
Wdym ?
@@Vakra355 When the video was published he put finnish instead of french flag. Later he fixed it
As a French dude, I am really proud of my country thus I will put the French flag : 🇫🇮 on my house
Lol
Fun Fact: France actually borders The Netherlands.
Another fact: France actually broders the Netherlands through its islands broders in the Caribbean
Love and respect France from Armenia
🇦🇲❤️🇫🇷
Polnareff approves of this video
Yes, i do
😂
Les Français ont est la 🇫🇷🗼
👇
France also borders Andorra
Andorra is special considering the fact that the French president is co-prince of Andorra
Fun fact:
England was never a colony of france.
William the conquer was a Norman and hated the french.
The english weren’t at fault for Joan of arc’s death either.
The french sentenced her to death for wearing mens clothes.
The guillotine was also not a french invention,but a Yorkshire invention.
Get mad at me all you want,I’m right.
So you can say what you want but there was no French strictly speaking at that time it was a miriad of small peoples like the Normans who included the kingdom of Francia and do you know that more than 3/4 of William's army was not even Norman horseman of the royal domain Archer Poitevin Bretons ect.... For the guillotine and Joan of Arc I will answer you in another comment but the fact that England is a colony makes quite sense its language and its influence as well as its leaders replaced by French.
Et c'est Joseph ignace Guillotin qui a créé la première guillotine et ce sont bel et bien les anglais qui l'ont mis à mort en la capturant en pleine campagne bref il suffit de vous renseigner.
Go learn english 🤡
Vive la France 💙 🇨🇵 😎
It's nice you could tell interesting facts about our country, thanks from France! :)
"France is bordering 8 countries"
Brazil - Am I a joke to you sir ??
I was refering to the neighbors of Metropolitan France
Netherlands: hi
BRO SAID METROPOLITAIN DO YOU EVEN LISTEN WHAT HE SAYS FRRR I AM CRYING RN CUS SO MANY PPL HAVE BARELY ANY BRAINCELLS TO EVEN COMPREHENCE WHAT HES SAYING
@@OttomanGeography exactly
@@SoftJellauw Why are you crying. You have 6 years?
When i found out about that kilts werent made in scotland, i was mad bcs i am scottish
I don't believe it.
Don't worry, it's like French fries. Everyone in France consider it to be a Belgian/northen France specialty, nobody consider kilts to be French.
France Bordes: Andora, Spain, Monaco, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, Germany
Proud to be french !!!
They actually border 11 countries
Whats the other 3?
Netherlands with the island of san martin
Brazil and surinam with french guyana
@@B19761 he said France is bordering eight countries in its metropolitan area meaning mainland France.
Yes we know but in the MAINLAND. he meant the MAINLAND
En tant que Français, je vois cela comme une victoire absolue
You can also fit 3 Frances in Quebec.😊
And France's population is 8 times that of Québec.
@@TheVoodooMaker true
Europe is a small continent but so immense by its genius and its power
Beside countries bordered in Europe, oversea France also border 23 countries : Canada, Mexico, Surinam, Brazil, Netherland, Antillan, Pacific and Indian Ocean archipelagoes.
En fin de compte elle est partout.vive la France 🇨🇵🇨🇵
They don’t. They have small islands near Mexico and canada but they don’t border.
@@tralalaaaaaa sea borders are still borders
actually france borders 11 countries France have territory in South America
Metropolitan
It's French Guiana due to Colonial Empire from the past
The Metropolitan word is a joke for you
@@christophermichaelclarence6003did you hear what the channel said? HE SAID THE MAINLAND OF FRANCE THE EUROPEAN FRANCE
Now I know that my country hide a lot to me
France also has a border with the Dutch through an island
I about sicked all over my screen when i saw that french flag overlayed over England. I think thats reasonable cause to start another 100 years war
France borders three more countries Brazil and Suriname from the overseas department of French Guiana. And the they border the Netherlands from the maritime island in the Caribbean called Saint Martin/Sint Maarten
bro it said metropolitan area 😞
@@Jack-fp5gz still
@@GraysonFeldman-bt6ibno overseas territories don't count as the metropolitan area so France's mainland doesn't border Suriname Brazil or the Netherlands
Le baguette is watching you 🫵🏻🤨
Netherlands left the chat. FRANCE TOUCHS HIM IN CARIBBEAN
The comments says 0 again lol
At this point It's a feature
France also borders Brazil due to a small land not being independent from France
Metropolitan area
They also border Suriname
They border the Netherlands too
And all these people who say it borders something else just don't ever respond because they got so embarrassed. That's really embarrassing
at the same time this small land does not want independence either...
France has a border with Netherlands through the island of saint martin.
Love France from Armenia 🇦🇲❤️🇨🇵
To all the people saying France borders the Netherlands, this is incorrect. France borders sint maarten, which is another country in the kingdom of the Netherlands. So technicly france borders the kindom of the Netherlands, but not the Netherlands itself.
Exactly. And We French share Saint Martin territory with the Dutch
But what is the nationality of people from the Dutch part of Saint Martin ?
@@Achillionable They are eventually Dutch. Saint Martin is being shared in half. Whether it's 🇫🇷 or 🇳🇱
You placed a king for a small island lmao
I knew ALL of these things.
Am I the right audience for this?
🤔
Great editing and animation, though!
Your goals are beyond my understanding
(did I say that correctly ? I'm French and my English is kinda poor)
🥇
That's the medal you're clearly wanting
Je savait pas pour le kilt , c'est stylé en vrai XD
France also border Brazil and Netherland in South America
listen again he says metropolitan france
Fun fact: croissants are Austrian invention not French.
No, it’s just the shape. It’s not the same recipe at all. The Austrian version is made from brioche dough. The French version is based on puff pastry. Even the way of designing wheat is different.
@@antibash691That’s probably why the French call it a « viennoiserie », right? 😊
@@tixien Right ! A crescent-shaped brioche arrived in France by Marie-Antoinette of Austria in the 1770s. Louis XVI’s wife brought it in her luggage, along with other Viennese specialties, hence the name of Viennese pastries. . In the 1830s, two Austrians, August Zang and Ernest Schwarzer, opened "La boulangerie viennoise" in Paris, rue de Richelieu, where they sold croissants and other Viennese specialties. The products have a great success and inspire other bakers who contribute to the spread of these "viennoiseries". Not knowing the real recipe, many of them will adapt it or change it completely. For example, the modern crescent "croissant" created by French chef Sylvain Claudius Goy appeared at the beginning of the 20th century. It is made from a puff pastry recipe. A range of sweet puff pastry bakery products derived from this new recipe will appear, such as "pain au chocolat (chocolatine)", for example. To distinguish them from other traditional pastries and bakery products, they will continue to be called "viennoiserie" despite the fact that they no longer have anything to do with the original products that came from Austria. So the French croissant is a French invention. ;-)
I'm happy someone finally said it!
Being a french, I can approve we "stole" croissant 😅
@@OmegaDaPro S’inspirer n’est pas voler.
England it was just the court that was speaking French. The Island went through many changes, but it would be correct to say England was a vassal of France for sometime. While the Kings of England called themselves Kings. They were under the crown of France.
Damn! I didn't know that! Thnx for sharing
France borders brazil beaucase of french guyana and netherlands beaucase of an island
BRO SAID METROPOLITAIN DO YOU EVEN LISTEN WHAT HE SAYS FRRR I AM CRYING RN CUS SO MANY PPL HAVE BARELY ANY BRAINCELLS TO EVEN COMPREHENCE WHAT HES SAYING
Not only Brazil, Suriname too.
@@mfcq4987 m e t r o p o l i t a i n
@@SoftJellauwok the last one was funny, why are you pasting so many places? They are just stupid or have alzhiemers
@@catfacecat. to uh correct peoples who are incorrect
Which source for kilts ?
Did you know French is the language of the future?
Nah
It is indeed one the most spoken languages in the world right now. And it is indeed the fastest growing one (due to french speaking areas’ population growth, mostly Africa). And it is indeed forecasted to become the most spoken one or one of the two most spoken by the end of the century.
So you’re not wrong.
Brasil is the country with the longest border with France
Main idea: France 🇫🇷
Title: 🇫🇮
Haha, I'm glad you noticed id
@@realityexplained1514ah ah ah 😑 I’m French
“French was the official language in England for 300 yrs”…It was actually a bit more complicated than that.
As for the nobility, the Norman lords of England actually intermarried quite quickly after they conquered. With daughters of English nobles etc. They had mixed English blood and French was the language of the court but plenty of these Anglo-Norman lords spoke Middle English as well. After the 2nd generation they were no longer Norman. It's pretty much the international consensus that the Normans became "naturales Angli" and proud of their "Anglorum patria" by the end of Henry II's reign, past that, chroniclers and writers of the era seem to have seen "Normannis" as antiquated legal and everybody is simply called "Angli" instead. Even in tournament records from Richard I's reign, the nobles in England are called English.
"In part it stemmed from inter-marriage with the English. In the late 1170s the royal treasurer could write that 'with the English and Normans living side-by-side and intermarrying, the peoples have become so mingled that no-one can tell - as far as free men are concerned - who is of English and who of Norman descent."
What Did the Normans Do for Us?-BBC
The English and Normans came together through the necessity of living side by side and also through marriage. With many of the rank and file Normans, and their French colleagues, being men of small worth, they had little option, but to mix in with their English neighbours, leaving their noble masters to carry on the illusion of being truly French. But even they, with their children being raised by English nannies and their English reeves and stewards managing their estates, became first Anglo-Norman, and then English. An Anglo-Norman chronicler, Orderic Vitalis, who wrote in 1125, even applauded the continued resistance of the English to William the *******!
Whilst even to this day many noble families will echo the words of the chief justiciar in the twelfth century when he told Henry II that even if all documents perished: '..we should ourselves be its charters, for we are the feoffees from that conquest made at Battle', later generations of, 'Normans', took much pride in claiming decent from English forebears. An example of this is the ongoing dispute between the Wake, Howard (the family of the Dukes of Norfolk), and Harward families. All claim to have the best line of decent from the Norman Hugh de Evermue and his wife, the daughter of that great leader of the English resistance to the Norman Conquest - Hereward the Wake!
The Anglo-Normans developed a vernacular French quite distinct from that being spoken in France. The Normans would originally have spoken something akin to langues d'oïl, the Old French spoken in the North, with a Scandinavian influence. In England this combined with Picardy and various dialects of "Western" French and even langues d'oc, the Vulgar Latin derivative also behind Catalan. Jordan de Fantosme's 1174/5 history of the Anglo-Scottish War of 1173-4 is written in French verse, for example, but is written on a decidedly Occitan grammatical structure which was apparently widely understood in England but would likely have been very confusing in France.
[Gillingham (2005), "Events and Opinions: Norman and English Views of Aquitaine, c.1152-c.1204" (pp. 57-82) in The World of Eleanor of Aquitaine: Literature and Society in Southern France between the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries]
This was the result of William I's nobility being an amalgamation of people from various different corners of France, all with their own dialects and languages, who also partially adopted the linguistic structures of the Old English language of their structures. Within a generation, Anglo-Normans were speaking a quite unique language which would eventually become Middle English.
William actually took great pains to paint himself as the legitimate and rightful heir to the throne of England rather than a foreign invader. Indeed, he even originally planned to leave England and Normandy as separate entities to his sons Robert and William. The Normans themselves integrated themselves into English society quite thoroughly.
In particular, they married into many of the established English noble families in an attempt to present a facade of continuity. Many of the prominent English writers of the late eleventh and twelfth centuries were of mixed Anglo-Norman heritage. Men such as William of Malmesbury, Orderic Vitalis and Gerald of Wales typified the new Anglo-Norman nobility, typically with Norman or French fathers and English or Welsh mothers, and who took great pride in their mixed heritage and new English identity. In their writings, within a generation of the Conquest, there's already a definite sense of English identity, both ethnically and linguistically distinct from France.
Orderic and William in particular aspire to an English identity in their histories. Both claim to write in the tradition of Bede, and use his Historia Ecclesiastica as a model. William of Malmesbury writes his Historia Regum Anglorum and draws heavily on the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and Asser's Vita Ælfredi among other earlier works as his sources.
Some reading:
Britnell and Thatcher, Progress and Problems in Medieval England
Davies, R.R., Domination and Conquest
Gillingham, The English in the Twelfth Century
(Continued) Edward III was the king to issue the Statute of Pleading in 1362. This was a law that required English to be spoken in the courts because otherwise the vast majority of the population wouldn't understand what was going on.
So, although he wasn't the first to have English as a primary language I think he's an important place to start.
Richard II spoke English very well and presided over the flowering of the English language in the 14th century. Although he was not one of the main patrons of the poetry of his time he would certainly been aware of it. He was definitely very adept in it, which I think is an important thing to note.
One of the big patrons of that 14th century flowering of the English language was John of Gaunt, Edward's son. He was the uncle of Richard II and father to his cousin, Henry IV (who would usurp Richard). John is famously Chaucer's major patron and they were even in-laws toward the end of Gaunt's life.
Another person to benefit from Gaunt's patronage was John Wycliffe, who founded England's first "heresy". Wycliffe attacked the clergy much as Martin Luther would later but more important to this is he was the first person to translate the Bible into vernacular English. (Wycliffe's heresy, lollardy, was persecuted in England but Wycliffe survived due to Gaunt's protection.) I think this is important because when Wycliffe wanted to translate the Bible into a vernacular language he did so in English. Which meant there would have been a good number of people who could read in English. People who would prefer to read in English.
So when Henry IV took the throne, being the son of this great patron of the English language, he took the oath in English. Although he would have been fluent in French, he certainly used English in his day to day and I think he's a safe place to say really began to emphasize English from the throne. And, as stated above, his being raised to focus on English was likely a conscious choice by his father.
As to why? Well, I don't think you can state one answer. The Hundred Years War played a part. Even as the kings of England were trying to become the Kings of France there was a lot of animosity toward France that grew up from that. And the nobility were increasingly more associated as English.
But that is a superficial answer. It goes back much further. I think you can take it back to Henry I (son of William the Conqueror), who married a woman descended from the Anglo-Saxon kings and made conscious efforts to incorporate English words and ceremonies into his court. Thus his son was called William the Atheling (meaning prince)… I think it's really the first sign of an attempt of genuine integration. The first ember of a joining of the people not just a group of conquerors and their conquered. And everything has to start somewhere right?
I think you can see it with Henry II too. Who wouldn't have spoken English but did try to incorporate, regulate, and enhance English laws and customs. The courts were all in French but something distinctly English was growing up under Henry. Slowly. Again, this is not anything close to transitioning to English but it's a journey.
Most importantly, under John when they lost most of their French possessions nobles, who previously may have had land on the continent and in England, mostly had to make a choice. They could be English or they could be Norman. Suddenly their identification with England was much more exclusive.
Under Henry III there was a lot of growing resentment and hatred toward foreigners especially from Poitou. By this point, you have a sense of English barons being totally separate and distinct from the Normans or Angevins. And proud of it.
Slowly through out this time you have a formerly Norman nobility becoming increasingly anglicized. They may still be speaking French but they will need to know English to communicate (in the past anyone worth talking to would speak or learn French).
At the same time, there was a growth in trade in London, and the growth of the language was heavily influenced by the London dialect (although not exclusively so). So you have a small but growing class of wealthy or middle class people who grew up speaking English. These aren't nobles but they matter. And they would have learned French as they became more important (or tried to) but they would have spoken French like someone from London does. Which... is not really French. Chaucer makes fun of such people in the Prioress's tale. Chaucer comes from this class of people.
So, yeah, by the time they were deep into the Hundred Years War there was a lot of hostility toward the French. But it's not like the nobles were like "eff you I'm not even speaking your language anymore. Take that!" It was a gradual process, almost tortuously so, going all the way back to the generation after the conquest. It reflected the increasing anglicizing of the nobility. And, of course, the increased Normanizing of the commons as Middle English was a very different animal from old English. It definitely went both ways. And a king, in the kind of personal rule reflected in a "feudal" culture, can't be so far from his barons that he doesn't speak their language.
So your claims are simplistic at best…
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@@phoenixrose1192 didn't read all of that
Too long and it’s littely complicated for me to lisen in English because I’m French
@@phoenixrose1192toooooooooooo loooooooooong
These comments relieve me cuz everybody who i talk to france about insults my country and calls it shit
This explains so much about lots of words in British English sounding french
France borders 11 the ones he missed are Netherlands Brazil and Suriname
In its "Metropolitan area" he said meaning the home land area
It's metropolitan area.
I feel offended as a scottish. Now I'm going to jump off a bri-
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I’m French and I love your country and the kilt is better in Scotland
Maybe the kilt came from Brrittany where I live
I am actually not surprised as Scotland was French several times in its history
tf you mean?
They were allies multiple times,
And Mary Queen of Scots was actually more so french then Scottish,but france never owned the area of scotland.@@evasiondreams3376
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Another but small fact: France also bordering the Netherlands with a small island in the Caribbean
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*Netherlands and Brazil left the chat*
Surinam : and me ?
@@MorrocoCountryballs yes son
METROPOLITAN
Netherlands?????
@@rucool7775 neitherland bordering with france in a islande
France also border brazil and Netherlands in over seas
France also borders the Netherlands in the antilles
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French Guyana that is a french colony:lets pretend i dont exist
Ah yes a colony lol 😂
he said metropolitan lad.
I t's an integral part of France and the EU
French became "The country where the sun never set" I guess XD
Didn't know England was speaking French! Whoa!
FINLAND FLAG LOL
Where???
In fact, the kilt was invented in Scotland, not in France. The author apparently studied at a university in Antarctica 💀.
Kilt is the scottish version invented in the 16th century. But the pattern, fabric and skirt like clothes used to male kilts were invented in France in the Early Middle Age
@@XR190190 The first mention of the kilt was found in Scotland. I have looked all over google and all sites say that the kilt was invented in Scotland in the 16th century. And if you ask who first came up with the idea of wearing a skirt as men's clothing, then it was the Assyrians.
@@Edarnon_Brodie it's not just the skirt clothes. It's the fabric, the method to make the fabric, the materials used adn the patterns. Just like jeans have been invented in France as well.
But yeah if we're talking strictly about kilt as the shape we see in Scotland, it was indeed invented in Scotland! But the first forms of "kilt" (obviously they weren't called that before), meaning the fabric and patterns worn as some kind of clothes (skirt but also pants, tunics etc) were invented in the middle age and in France
I can read on french websites (I'm french) that it's danish, they say the word "kilt" is from "normàn" a danish word
Maybe it came from Brittany, it's also a Celt land
Netherlands be like: FRANCE I BOARDER YOU ON A ISLAND
Surinam and BRAZIL: BRO FRENCH GUIANA!!
Yes but French Guiana and the islands aren't part of the metropolitan area
bro felt into the trap, France border with Netherland too
blud does not know what metropolitan means
France also borders the Netherlands due to a colony
Its not a colony anymore
metropolitan*
You forgot Brazil too
Also bordered by Brazil and Surinam in Guyane !
Spy: I claim this point for France
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