Perfect country

no you're cringe
read a book

Antiquity and medieval period (Venice) were very much shaped by Italy.

germany is cringe, it never had the influence that france had.

pas vrai sale amerloque

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>antiquity
>italy
lmao

You're speaking english because of us ironically
We helped america get its independance without really thinking much about it and then they became a superpower and forced us all to speak english

the point is not military victories, or you could include a shithole like germany. the point is that european culture= france for centuries

You get what I mean.

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Spain was still ruler during whole XVII

Yesterday was Basstile day what did you guys make?
I made a British style Coq au vin.
Its was yummy!

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no i don't get it, are you implying roman empire achievements must be attached with modern iitaly ? makes no sense.

Reminder to everyone that the Normans were not French. If the Normans were French, then why did Etienne of Rouen in 1160s, in his work Draco Normannicus, call William the Conqueror's followers on the conquest "Danes"....please explain to me why your own "French" sources, written in Latin.....are calling the Normans Vikings?

Aelnoth of Kent was an English noble that lived in Denmark after the invasion, he called the Normans "Francigeni" because in Old English, Normen means "Vikings" and after a while, he stopped using "Francigeni" to describe the Normans and instead called William "Duke of the south Normans", as in southern Vikings. Dudo of Saint-Quentin was hired by Richard I and Richard II of Normandy and Count Rodolf to write strongly patriotic Norman hagiographies and celebrate their Scandinavian ancestry.

Normandy today, is not the same Normandy 1000 years ago.

Please so ahead and read the works of William of Jumieges, William of Poitiers and Dudo of Saint-Quentin. The Normans not only hated the French but they hated the Bretons and Irish too. There's massive work you can find on this subject. The only reason why the Normans picked up French culture is because they didn't want to get kicked out of France like past bands of Vikings. Normandy always came user attack from Ile-De-France and the Normannorvm every single time blamed the French for being jealous of Normannitas Regnum and hating their Pagan past.

The true history is that thanks to the 100 years of Chevauchées, the English under their English king ran riot across France unchallenged to rape, murder and steel as much loot as they could ram on the ships "les goddams". Then when they did get challenged at Sluys, Crecy, Poitiers and Agincourt, the French got totally slaughtered and its been engrained in folk legend ever since. If you go to England you can find stately homes, churches and family chapels that were practically funded entirely from French loot. LOLOL.

nobody was "ruler" except maybe the Roman Empire in its prime, but even they didn't control all of Europe
Habsburg Spain (with the possession of the Austrian branch allied to them) were the strongest power from the early 16th century until the end of the Thirty Years' War, after which France had become the strongest power (thanks to allying with the Ottoman Empire, Sweden, and smaller German states like Brandenburg-Prussia)

pas lu franchement

All four of the biggest battles of the hundreds years war were English victories, not French. Yeah France got some good fights in the end but Crecy, Sluys, Agincourt, Vernuil and Poities are all the biggest victories. France also needed to be saved by 14,000 Scottish warriors at the battle of Bauge that the Dauphin Charles admitted saved France, and paid them generously with gold.

Edward III was not named by his mother and to say the ENGLISH nobility was francophone is absolutely hilarious. In fact, Isabella of France and her family wanted to call the baby Louis after French kings but the whole english protested in disgust and demanded he be called the traditional English name for kings of England: Edward. He also wasn't called "Edouard"...look on the English coins for his reign, it was spelt "Edward".

Edward III (Edward of Windsor) was a proud Englishman. Although because he wanted to rule over England and France, he tried to hit a balance between satisfying the English lust for war and reconciling the French with the English cause. A very tricky and stressful game to play...especially when you've got English parliament that want to bleed France dry of all its riches.

But by the time you get to my hero Henry V, the king of England simply stops caring and goes in sword swinging not giving a fuck. and Henry V went full blown conquest mode and nearly did it.

After Waterloo, British soldiers occupied Paris and taught the French how to play golf, race horses, hunt foxes, grill steaks and bake afternoon cakes to eat with tea. The Austrians joined in on the party and taught them how to cook baguettes and croissants. King Louis~Phillip, Napoleon III and Napoleon IV all loved to live in England and spoke English. British romanticism also culturally triumphed over French classicalism. I’m sure you know Voltaire? He preferred England to France and his Letters escrites de Londres was a best seller in France and English fashion become hugely popular in France.

Didn't read and the tapestry of Bayeux actually made by the people who cucked the english calls themsleves French and their enemies english

that fucking cope lmao
normans hated the french so much they adopted their culture, language and religion..
not only the normans were invading england.
all this norman terminaison is a way for anglos to cope the very fact they were dominated by the french for several centuries.

>barbarians come in the thread

>start autism about battles and military power

why are they so blind about french soft power?

youtu.be/3q90J4_CpdI

>all this norman terminaison is a way for anglos to cope the very fact they were dominated by the french for several centuries.
British people consider the Normans French
ignore the yank

>AKSHUALLY the original Franks originated from today's Belgium. So did Charlemagne

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>no i don't get it, are you implying roman empire achievements must be attached with modern iitaly ?
Yeah
>makes no sense.
No

did a frenchman write this after drinking too much merlot? what a stupid image