Why is France so rich? #history #trending

[CJGanon]

Fun fact, France literally controls the economy and life in nine central African countries.

[Spoon]

Not really after WW2 Britain and France were so poor that they had to give up their colonies

[etiennecastaing]

Well, Gauls were already one the richest lands of the Roman Empire. Later, France was the richest european country during a few periodes, way before colonization (11th, 14th, 17th century for instance). Maybe... It has always had riches and hard working people ?

[volentastudios]

Well to be fair it’s too because of the massive amount of tourism to France and the several well developed industry even tho we can not ignore the horrors of colonization

[शांतनु]

That's not just france. All of the weatern european countries are rich because of colonisation whether it's france, spain, portugal, britain, netherlands or denmark.french colonised africa but iberians(spanish and portugese) colonised south america and part of north america and also wiped out the native people of that location. All the western european countries are rich because of the resource they stole from their colonies.

[thebrownbanana]

yeah just that its not 1902 and france has no colonies so i ask again why is france rich?