France

France is a country situated in Western Europe.
==History==
===Pre-Rome===
Before Rome, most of the people that inhabited France were Celts and Gauls, situated in barbarian tribes.
===Rome===
Rome conquered most of The Meditteranean, and fought the Gauls for control of present-day France. By 50 BC, Rome had conquered all of Gaul, and what remained of the old Gallic and Celtic tribes fled to the British Isles.
===Frankish Kingdoms===
There were many Frankish Kingdoms following the Sack of Rome, but they were first united in 481 by Clovis I, and went on to defeat many other kingdoms(including a rump state of the Western Roman Empire). After Clovis' death, there was a power vacuum, and once again there were many Frankish states. By the 700s though, they were all united under Thierry IV, and by 768, Charlemagne or Charles I was in control of the Frankish Kingdom. He took Lombardy, Brittany, Saxony, Bavaria, Bohemia, and the Pyrenees, and was crowned Emperor of the Romans in 800. However, when he died in 814, his grandsons separated his Empire into 3 kingdoms, which were West Francia, East Francia, and Middle Francia. West Francia would become France in 987.
===Medieval===
The French king made his nobles vassals, and England invaded in the 1300s, starting the Hundred Years War.After 116 years of fighting, the French managed to drive the English out of Gascony, their last major stronghold on the French mainland. When the New World was discovered, the French set up a colony in modern day Quebec called New France. However, they soon lost it to the British after the Seven Years war. To this day though, French is a secondary language of Canada.
===French Revolution===
During the American Revolution in 1778, France sent the United States loans and soldiers, but the US couldn't pay them back after gaining independence from Great Britain. This caused France's lower class to be even poorer, but the Clergy and Nobility were not affected and continued to live their lavish lifestyles, taxing the poor to get money. Eventually the people had enough and revolted, putting an extremist group called the Jacobins in charge, led by Maximillien Robespierre. They executed the last French Monarch, Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, before setting up an extremist republic. However, Robespierre was soon executed and power returned to a weak moderate republic. This republic, called the Directory, was short lived and Napoleon Bonaparte soon took over in 1804.
===Napoleon===
Napoleon Bonaparte took power in France in 1804, defeating multiple of France's enemies who were trying to restore the French Monarchy. Napoleon was an amazing military commander, defeating Austria, the Holy Roman Empire, Prussia and Spain in only 4 years, making it as far as modern day Croatia and Poland. However, after betraying their ally Russia, their success turned around. From 1812 to 1814, Napoleon lost almost all of the land he gained and was exiled. He came back later in 1815 but failed again and was exiled to St. Helena where he died in 1821.
==== Late 1800s ====
After the loss of Napoleon, the French Monarchy was restored. However, it lasted only 27 years when the 1848 revolutions put Napoleon III in charge. He militarized the nation, but ended up losing to Prussia in 1871, during the Franco-Prussian War. The French were humiliated, and Prussia united with the southern German states to become the German Empire. After the humiliating defeat, the French turned their attention to Africa and Asia, annexing huge swathes of land, form Algeria to Madagascar to Vietnam to Syria.
====World Wars====
During both world wars, France was a member of the Allied Powers, opposing the Central Powers in WW1 and the Axis Powers in WW2.
=====First World War=====
France joined the Allies when Germany, with its Scheiffen plan, attacked through Belgium, where France had less defenses. The Germans were almost at Paris, but the French, with British reinforcements, pushed them back and built trenches to stop the German advance. In 1916, the Battle of the Somme smashed the routine of trench warfare using tanks invented by the British. Later, the French repelled the Germans again in Verdun. Finally, in November 1918, with American reinforcements pushing the Germans into their own turf, the Germans surrendered, ending the war.
=====Second World War=====
During the Second World War, France built the Maginot Line, a line of forts running from the borders with Switzerland up to Luxembourg. However, the Germans evaded the line with an attack through Belgium and the Ardennes, where France had minimal defenses. After Paris fell, France surrendered, with North France taken, the south became Vichy France, a puppet of Nazi Germany. Some territories refused to surrender and continued to support the allies under Charles de Gaulle. Owning areas such as Syria and Equatorial Africa, this "country" was known as Free France. Later on June 6, 1944, after the Allies launched an invasion on Normandy, known as D-Day, France was mostly freed. These events led to the surrendering of Germany.
====20th Century====
France supported Western ideals and opposed Eastern ideals, such as communism. All of its colonies declared independence, with the exception of French Guiana and New Caledonia.
===Today===
France is mostly peaceful and is in the EU to this date. Its capital, Paris, is a cultural, military and economic center of Europe with the most tourists of any country in the world. It is currently led by Emmanuel Macron and is Libertarian Left on the political spectrum.
==Mapper Opinions of the future==
===99batran===
France would become one of the few countries with their own Nuclear weapons... no wait... The European Union already has Nuclear weapons (they share). And France would lose the rest of it's colonies.
===Aendarus Mapping===
France will respond to the growing threat of Daesh by sending in troops to combat them. The French people will grow their hatred toward all muslims, as the muslim population grows. The Socialists take over, and France closes borders to Muslim immigrants, supported by the newly socialist USA led by Donald Trump.
===Amin12345===
It becomes the Popular Republic of France.
===Arceus===
France will be eaten for breakfast. OM NOM NOM
===Bahamutman===
FRANCE RUNS OUT OF CREPE AND JOB AND EVRYONE THERE DIES then findrake take it FINDRAKE stronk ᕦ(x ͟ل͜x)ᕥᕦ(x ͟ل͜x)ᕥᕦ(x ͟ل͜x)ᕥᕦ(x ͟ل͜x)ᕥᕦ(x ͟ل͜x)ᕥᕦ(x ͟ل͜x)ᕥ
===Bobby John10===
January 2016 - France attacking Andorra and Luxembourg, and is leaving the EU and attacking Belgium and the Netherlands.
===Ceplio===
France takes German lands.
===Drexmapper===
====Actual Prediction====
France will grant independence to Corscia and Brittany.
====Alternate Future of Europe====
France disappears 2 times, divided between Permia and the Swiss Empire.
===Eridan===
France gets in a crisis, it leaves EU and then it gets attacked and then it dies.
=== Eradiate ===
France is shown in the first half of the series as an ally to Great Britain and Italy, France participated in World War 3, And was the last to surrender. After the war, France resented Their former allies and became enemies. France was conquerer German States sometimes, however a Treaty That France would not intervene or influence Germany again. They become Allies with Graxum and they would Invade Israel and Jordan. Despite the treaty from before, When North Germany was invading German states, France started attacking, North Germany wanted it but France declined so signed the treaty. They attack the Swiss in World War 4, as Graxum was making plans that allowed them to win the war. Britain was trying to reform him, but Old France was long gone. Then France invaded Armudus, and then after a long discussion, They surrendered to Graxum and The French Empire.
===Flaming Spaghetti Monster===
Clipperton Island is annexed by Mexico.
===Giratina720===
#France loses 3 quarters of its original land to the Parisians. (Unlikely)
#France will get communism (Impossible)
#France will be peaceful after the Charlie Hebdo attacks (Likely)
===Goldenrebel25===
*France stays mostly the way it is, peaceful and friendly to other countries. (Likely)
*They attack neighboring small countries with a crazy king to conquer the world. (Unlikely)
*They will nuke everyone (Nearly Impossible)
===HappynHungry===
France will be eaten for breakfast.
=== JVTA Mapping ===
France will give Brittany and Corsica independence, as well as giving French Guiana to Brazil, who will rename it: Guianian State.
===Razvy===
France loses Alsace to Germany. It also loses Provence-Alpes and Corsica to Italy but France Gains some Italian Land and it also annexes Andorra and occupies Basque.Later France collapses into north and south with Brittany and Normandy idependent. Italy takes back its original land.
===RevanMapper===
# France gets Emago60 as president (Unlikely)
# France will get peaceful (Likely)
# France will get communism or somehting (Impossible)
===ShiningOrange===
France will get in economical crisis, will become poor, leave the EU, and then nationalist movements will rise. (likely but not so much)
===Thunder Mapping===
France invades Benelux and Iberia. It also gets Cornwall.
===Zephyrus===
# They stay like this (maybe?)
# They expand economically, industrially and maybe militarily and become a great power again. (likely)
# They re-make their colonial empire (unlikely)
===Zukas===
France surrenders and changes its flag to a white sheet.
===Atlasium===
France leaves the EU and tensions increase between them and England. Eventually France is loses all its colonies and then becomes poor like Spain.
TheodoreballFrance leaves the NATO/EU.
=== Zulthyr ===
France will unite with Germany and the Benelux nations to create the European Federation.
=== Fyorrian Mapping ===
France loses Alsace-Lorraine to Germany and Brittany gains independence.
Category:Countries
Category:Countries in Europe
Category:Present Day
Category:Modern Nations
Category:Past Colonial Powers
Category:Countries in Africa
Category:Countries in America
Category:Countries in Oceania
Category:Countries in Asia
Category:European Union
Category:Countries in South America
Category:Countries in North America
Category:Countries in the Caribbean
Category:Modern Nations in Europe