Thanks.
Today I learned that the early Britons are also called Celtic Britons. The Germans (who bombed Pearl Harbor) arrived in the fifth century. If I had paid attention in fifth grade, I’d have known that.
By the way, did Varus ever give back those Legions?
Yup, the Romans’ Germans were the Franks, who wound up starting France after moving into Gaul, which had been Romano-Celtic. Then they went way overboard in popularizing wine, which had been pretty darned popular in the Roman Empire, and among Greeks, Gauls, you name it. And wine with every meal leads to other things, very naughty things.
The population of France was the largest of any European country (not excluding the Russian Empire) until the late 19th - early 20th century. Whatever was left of that advantage dissolved in world war one. French population since 1955 has risen about 50%, while fertility (actual fertility rather than what French men may brag about) has fallen by 40 percent. As a percentage of world population, France has declined about 50%.
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/france-population/