How did they get away with this?

How did they get away with this?

Hon hon hon, le pay no attention to this, let's talk about le evil oppressive German invaders instead mon ami.

Because if you do it over 250 years no one will care

People only really care if you go full retard and annex half of Europe in 10 years

Well, European powers cared during Louis XIV's conquests
But they were simply no match

Anyways, french expansion was made in a feudal logic context and not in a modern estate nation context.

>Spanish succession
>french victory

Many of those places spoke langues d'oïl and as such were naturally part of France.

So Alsace and Moselle are naturally German territory, no?

Those are just Frenchmen who have been forced to speak a bastard for of german by the
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*form of

By being the strongest state in the area.

What is surprising to me is that they conquered so little, and didn't even gather all French speaking people under their kingdom.

They did for some time.

Because they were the most populated nation in Europe and had one of the most feared armies.

Bourbons literally still rule Spain in 2016.

Through diplomacy and/or purchases.

But those are mostly German areas. It leaves out a lot of French speaking people in the Netherlands. I remember that wars were fought for that too but French kings seemed to be okay with losing there, instead of just trying again.

And there's Savoie. Why did no king annex that ? Henry IV easily won the war in 1600, occupied most of the French side of the Alps, then signed a treaty giving up Saluzzo in exchange for the Bugey, Gex and Bresse...

>all French speaking people under their kingdom.

Those people didn't speak French at all. They spoke Walloon, Provencal and dozens other languages. French in Belgium or Switzerland is a child of edgy Romanticists in governments who introduced that language into schools. They thought that people will become more "civilized" if they spoke French.

Through the power of Iosing wars and surrender.

>They thought that people will become more "civilized" if they spoke French.

Truly wise men

Easy to say if you have the natural resources, defensive borders or even an ocean to protect. No other nation has became so powerful so many times for so long as France.

That's still more French than the franconian dialects that were spoken between the Rhine and Luxembourg.

All lands who are on the Left Bank of the Rhine belong to France, all lands who are on the Right Bank of the Rhine belong to Germany, this is pretty simple.

stop pls

We aren't bullies, we merely want our celtic brothers to return to their true roots.