Saturday, September 1st, 2007
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Southern Charm,
Western Passion
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 17,620
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Re: Re : Re: Re : Re: Re : Classify?
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Originally Posted by Cirrus
It was not the same thing : Armoricans weren't 'French', but Gauls, and so 'P-Celts', just like the Britons, with which they had trade links.
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Of course not. But it just happens that any origins of a French identity has as the common Gallic element.
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Originally Posted by Youenn
France was establiched after Armoricans was established.
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And which country was not?
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Sorry to prefer fight against Republicans and French imperialists. 
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How are you comparing to 800 hundred years of fighting and dignity of the Irish people? It is truly amazing that you do..
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Originally Posted by Mynydd
I would like to dig into that part of history. If I'm not wrong, many Bretons turned down the fight as Henri IV converted to Catholicism, letting down their own people and the Spanish who were there to help their cause. As in the case of the port and city of Saint Malo, which submitted to the obedience of Henri IV of France.
It was the surrender of the Breton government of Morcoeur, supported by Spain, to the French that confirmed the French control of Brittany.
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