Mentioning that France believes that the first impression that comes to most people's minds is romantic and aesthetic, the French they use is also called the most romantic language in the world, but in order to survive and develop in a jungle country of the jungle, the survival of the fittest, it is not enough to rely on unrealistic romance and poetry. You must have great power and a power that cannot be ignored to gain a foothold in the world, so as to protect the sovereignty of your people and country, and France is naturally no exception.
This blue planet that gave birth to life, the biological overlords who have lived in its arms for hundreds of millions of years have changed batch after batch, and since its birth, human beings have gradually established modern civilization. Nowadays, the countries of the world are independent, and this seemingly natural and harmonious scene has also been laid down after countless bloody battles, before the emergence of this situation, some countries have experienced the disintegration of the body, some countries have seized the opportunity to jump to the top, and some countries have fallen from the high altar, and the hegemon has since become obscure.
1. The Frankish Kingdom
In the 5th century BC, the Franks, who had been oppressed by the Gauls for 500 years, finally could not bear their exploitation and began to revolt, and finally, as the Celts who first landed on the land of France and settled here, defeated the powerful Gauls ruled by The Roman Julius Caesar and established a feudal Frankish kingdom.
In the early days of the Establishment of the Frankish Kingdom, due to the long-term oppression and cruelty of the French people, the people's livelihood was poor, and the life of the people at the bottom was very difficult and hard, but it was beneficial and harmless to let a stable and definite regime dominate the country. Under the rule of the feudal dynasty of the Frankish Kingdom, the life of the French people gradually improved, and they developed and grew step by step.
As the saying goes, "people are afraid of being famous and pigs are afraid of being strong", when the Frankish kingdom continues to grow and become rich, naturally there will be some red-eyed and jealous countries secretly calculating, planning to get a piece of it. In 1337, England, a neighbor of the Frankish Kingdom, took the lead, and the English king had long coveted the French throne, and when the time was ripe, Britain launched a war of aggression. The sudden invasion of the war caught the Frankish Kingdom by surprise, and at the beginning of the war, a large part of France fell, and the "Hundred Years' War" ended in 1453 by the French victory under the french people's sworn resistance.
The effects of the Hundred Years' War led to the decline of the French central authority, and the regime slowly regained its strength in the early 15th century, and Francis I established a new system of power on the basis of the basic completion of The unification of France by Louis XI, and the rapid development and rise of the civic class under the absolute monarchical regime. When the monarch Louis XIV was in power, in order to strengthen the centralized rule, he began to weaken the power of the local nobility, coupled with the economic level of handicrafts and commerce, there was a new height, the territory was also expanded, and the absolute monarchy reached its peak in this period.
The growing economic power caused the bourgeoisie to begin to be dissatisfied, they challenged the privileges of the nobility, and the enlightenment that emerged began to spread widely, representing science, freedom, democracy, reason, and attacking the French monarchy and the Catholic Church. After Louis XVI came to power, the dissatisfaction of the French people became more and more serious, and finally in 1789, the French Revolution broke out, Louis XVI was sent to the guillotine, and the absolute monarchy in France came to an end.
Ii. Iron-blooded Napoleon
Napoleon in 1799. Bonaparte staged a coup d'état, and Napoleon, who had always been a warrior, quickly took control of the then ruling Governorate, abolished the Republic, and established the First French Empire himself. Napoleon once again restored centralized rule, he promulgated the Civil Code to safeguard the interests of the bourgeoisie, the positively influenced capitalism developed rapidly in the economy, the population of the people at the bottom at this time was also growing, and the advantages of population and geography made France strong at this time.
However, under the continuous anti-French alliance in Europe, Napoleon lost in a war, and then the small border countries that were once attached to France jumped out to provoke trouble and took the opportunity to get rid of French control. Napoleon, who had no hero, was exiled to a remote area by captivity, and eventually died on a small island of exile. Since then, France has embarked on an absurd period of changing regimes.
Iii. The effects of war
France's state political system has been constantly changing, the instability of the central authority has a bad impact on the country's production and development, with the Bourbon Dynasty, the July Dynasty, the French Second Republic and the collapse of the same short reign, France's internal war consumption is increasing. Eventually, the Second Empire, founded by Napoleon III, temporarily stabilized the situation, during which time a part of the productive forces of society were restored.
France at home regime change, a large number of consumption of national strength, outside is also full of crises, difficulties, the beginning of the First World War let the French people in most of the young and middle-aged people on the battlefield, and the weapon advantage at that time is not obvious on both sides, so the number of people has become a gap can be opened to rely on, France has always had a demographic dividend before this, so it can dominate Europe for a long time, but the war this magic hole sacrifice broke France's demographic advantage.
France appeared as a victorious country, but successive conquests and the devastating influence of the German Nazi Party, the French people developed war-weariness, unwilling to give birth to life as before, France's birth rate was greatly reduced, in the early 20th century in order to restore the national strength of France's liberalization policy, excellent social welfare immediately attracted a large number of blacks, Jews to join, French white people at this time spontaneously began to consider themselves superior low birth plan, while the black birth rate exploded, the racial ratio began to tilt.
The contradictions between the French and German peoples have accumulated deeper and deeper in the struggle, and Germany, which is adjacent to the country, will not easily give up its hatred, and they all understand that they are incompatible with each other. In 1989, Germany painted a painting satirizing the problem of national race in France, and the French people did not care, in their eyes, no matter how the population changed, the state power was in the hands of whites. Nowadays, the passage of time to France is also an inevitable racist confrontation in the West, but many French people do not care about racial color.
4. Summary
Because of the geographical proximity of the country, France and Germany will not allow each other to develop and grow indifferently, and when you have a strong person around you who threatens you, you are doomed to stand on the opposite side, for individuals and countries. It was precisely because of the frequent loss of population in the war that the German painting of the road ahead of the French population gradually became a reality.