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A SHORT HISTORY OF FRANCE - CHARLOTTE MARY YONG...

France. The country we now know as France is the tract of land shut in by the British Channel 
the Bay of Biscay  the Pyrenees  the Mediterranean  and the Alps. But this country only gained
the name of France by degrees. In the earliest days of which we have any account  it was
peopled by the Celts  and it was known to the Romans as part of a larger country which bore the
name of Gaul. After all of it  save the north-western moorlands  or what we now call Brittany 
had been conquered and settled by the Romans  it was overrun by tribes of the great Teutonic
race  the same family to which Englishmen belong. Of these tribes  the Goths settled in the
provinces to the south  the Burgundians  in the east  around the Jura  while the Franks  coming
over the rivers in its unprotected north-eastern corner  and making themselves masters of a far
wider territory  broke up into two kingdoms that of the Eastern Franks in what is now Germany 
and that of the Western Franks reaching from the Rhine to the Atlantic. [...] Contains short
articles about French history  starting with the earlier Kings up to the French Revolution and
its outcomes.

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