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I have read here posts by French people with different opinions on the French national question. Some are of the opinion that there isn't and never was such a thing as a French ethnicity and that the French nation is artificial and was created by the French revolution and subsequent regimes. I have heard before such opinion from Romanian intelectuals, but I wondered what explains the Joan of Arc phenomenon. Wasn't the gathering of troops under her command and the elan of the French in battle against the English, showed that there was a French nation already? A nation is not defined only by a common language, but by a national self-consciousness. What is your opinion? Is there a French ethnicity and how old is it and how do you define it or what populations belong to it? What about a French nation, which is not the same thing as an ethnicity.
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