France was once known as Gaul, a province of the Roman Empire. That’s because the people who lived there were called Gauls. Today it is France, because in the latter 4th Century a Germanic tribe, the Franks, were allowed to cross the Rhine and settle in Gaul. They displaced the Gauls and renamed the place France. The descendants of the Franks have become today’s Gauls.
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The irony of the French being a Germanic people.