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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.

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King Charlemagne The greatest of medieval kings was born in 742, at a place unknown. He was of German blood and speech, and shared some characteristics of his people- strength of body, courage of spirit, pride of race, and a crude simplicity many centuries apart from the urbane polish of the modern French.

Taken from Charlemagne the King:

An biography from Will Durant's

STORY OF CIVILIZATION

1950