[Cato the Censor]

Your history is flawed---Here's just a few examples from 49 B.C. and about 750 A.D. or so:
Ariovistus, the valiant Gallic leader ,made Julius Caesar look like Sid Caesar for four years. Charlemagne, king of the Franks, met and defeated the Muslim Saracen hordes on Spanish soil and saved all of Europe for Christianity.

[CT]

Charlemagne, king of the Franks, met and defeated the Muslim Saracen hordes on Spanish soil and saved all of Europe for Christianity.

And Karl Der Grosse is regarded with great reverence as a German. Later, the kingdom split into two.

I think it also worth noting that one of the reasons Germany fought France in WWI was over lands held by France that were occupied by German-speaking peoples. Specifically the Loire Region, west of the Rhine. Thus, one might argue that the Frankish Kingdom was more a part of Germany, even in what is now France, than it ever was France.

Honestly, as an American of German ancestry, I have long wondered what gene pool mixed into the French character that made the French such wooses.

Maybe it was the snails they ate.

[weikel]

Charlemagne was undoubtably a great man despite the atrocities against the Saxons but it was Charles Martel who at the Battle of Tours saved Europe from the Muslims.