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Can't say if this counts as a true mistake per se, but France messed itself up hard by not having a population boom in the industrial revolution on the scale of literally every other European nation at that time. They used to be one of the most populous regions in the world, which was part of what gave them such immense sway in Europe. In fact before WWI Frances population started to level out and the government was concerned about a potential demographic crisis, a full century ahead of what's happened in the rest of the developed world.

It's been estimated that had they had an England-sized population boom, there'd be roughly 360 million people living in France today. They'd be the undisputed juggernaut of Europe and probably would have fared far, far better during the wars of the 20th Century.

Why did not population boom happened?

>Poland
>Creating Dutchy of Prussia

>America
>Losing Vietnam
or
>Largest amount of fatties

Well there were so many executions and murders happening during the revolutions, thousands of people died- But anyway anyone remember that manlet taking like 1000000 men to russia so they could all freeze to death? And there were still many more battles fought after the napoleonic wars. No surprise french population was exhausted. In fact Im surprised they still had enough manpower to fight the germans in WW1

Even if France's population increases by a factor of ten from Medieval times like England France would have maybe 200 million people max. However the fact that France has less than 100 million people is certainly an anomaly given its pre-industrial population size.

Nobody actually knows why the population boom didn't happen. It's not related directly to conflicts because other European nations that experienced similar losses still had large population booms. It's one of the greatest mysteries of demographic history.

>The Netherlands
>Not fightign for rightful Belgian clay

duhmeriflabxico peaked at the moon landings

>Battle of Kulikovo
>Battle of Kullikova
>Battle of Hard Dick

>Lithuania
>letting the plot against Mindaugas succeed, throwing the centralization back for a century under the rule of various backwards pagan dukes
>not getting Orthodoxx'd, kicking out the muscovite mongols and ruling all teh russias
we could've been the third rome by now

I know that France had very low literacy compared to rest of Europe, even Soviet union in like 1935 had higher literacy than France, but this has nothing to do with it, since Russia had population boom in 19th century as well.

Maybe the french simply didnt give a fuck? Same how some european countries also have a phase right now when young people dont want to have children for some reason. Could have been just pure coincidence

Yeah that's part of the mystery. Every attempt to explain it is disproved by another country that experienced the same thing having its own population boom. Low literacy? Russia. High standard of living? Italy. Population density? Netherlands. Industrialized too rapidly? England. Warfare? Germany/German states. Could have been a combination of factors granted, but they fail to adequately explain things and it's been a huge mystery to demographers, even ones that were contemporary to the Industrial Revolution.

>America

>Aiding insurgents against a regime we dislike, and afterwards fighting the insurgents

>USA
>not destroying the south root and stem

>Mexico
>not accepting the rightful Habsburg rule of Maximilian
JUST

There's some evidence to suggest that birth control become popular in France during the early 19th century as a result of anti-clericalism. Can't remember where I read that though.

>Merkelland

>Not keeping our cool around 1914

>America
>the entirety of the 60s

>Finland
>Signing YYA Treaty and becoming pseudo-warsaw pact country

super sicrit round:
>not joining the Tsarist Russia during the northern war