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Germans or Germans NS ?
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Do you and Sunic make any distinction between French and French Jacobines ?
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Franc-Comtois aren't totally Franciens. The half of Franche Comté speak - or rather spoke... - an arpitan dialect.
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Rather the southern half of the "Jura" department, and a tiny part of the "Doubs" department. About 10% of the Franc-Comtois.
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It was a mass murder
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Mass massacres happened during the conquest of Franche-Comté, like mass massacres happened everywhere in Europe during about every war, conquest and invasion. Nowhere near the "deliberate and systematic physical extermination of an ethnic or national group". Or the Swedes committed genocides all over Germany and Poland as well...
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Only because there was breton nobles to defend this autonomy. Before the republic, there already were tendances of centralism.
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Politically, yes; culturally, definitely no.
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But it's logical, when you have a multi-ethnic and imperialist state, it would be suicidal for this state to be federalist.
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Actually a "logical" policy would have been to set up a kind of "Apartheid" with a dominant ethnicity (ethnic French) as the German imperialists did in Eastern occupied territories or it was more or less the case in Russia. The Jacobine project to dissolve and merge every person living between the Rhine and the Atlantic into a pseudo-French Republican "Nation" was quite suicidal as well, as we can see it nowadays.
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Bretons chouans had a traditionalist view, aristocracy and catholicism. They didn't care about the identity of the sovereign, like other anti-republican people afterall.
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Perhaps, but you don't start an armed insurrection to support a political leader that was deposed if this very political leader has oppressed you and tried to destroy your ethnic group. Do you see Iraqi Kurds fighting for Saddam ?