Why did the French Empire decline?

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You forgot that one way more people would be speaking French is if France won the Spanish war of succession and incorporated the entire Spanish empire into its domain.

megalodon

Both, Countryballs Explain and History Matters uploading a video about France on the same day, nice.

alerav

4:32 fun fact: when picking the permanent security members, the soviet union back then wanted a communist state as it knows it'll get outvoted by the western powers(china didnt count back then as the nationalist government is still the recognized true china). UK suggested france would be in. while it was a pro-western nation, it can disagree with the US and with that, it was let in to the council

lillyie

with all the possessions (mainly islands) around the world you could still argue that it is somewhat alive to this day...

maxmustermann

Napoleon is well respected in Italy and San Marino, and many other countries. It surprised me that so many countries didn't really see him as an invader but to some extent a social liberator.
But what shocked me was the level of rivalry between England and France. In London, the Apsley House, is basically a showcase of how the Duke of Wellington finally beat Napoleon in the 7th European coalition... Dude held banquets commemorating his victory every year until his death. Come on, really?! Hahaha.

gulyascredo

Fun fact: they still have some of their colony like french guiana

waffle

The Huguenots weren't even remotely the majority of France's merchants, educated citizens, or craftsmen. Losing (some) of them hurt France somewhat, but the situation was never so close that the presence of the Huguenots would have made a difference in the long run.

Nonamearisto

French impact is still seen today. My mom was born in Montreal 🇨🇵🇨🇦. Btw cool video I like it 👌

Bk-qsyw

One of my favorite channels talking about one of my favorite countries, what a nice treat for my insomnia

XXXTENTAClON

British will make fun of France in the comments while they lost their Empire exactly at the same era

noidea

“So serious that it became an internet meme”
Like thats a high standard lol

NbaDan

Its kinda ironic that France nowdays has the biggest global "empire"

Not land wise but rather just how many little places that are so spread out thruout the world and are still french
The bigger ones are french guyana and french polynesia but also many other small islands in atlantic, pacific and indian ocean.

Its also the country that spans the most time zones (even more than russia-11) it spans 12 time zones

So even more ironicly the sun nowdays never sets in france

Edit: im not either french nor british, so please dont make the replies a warzone-

jasastopar

Tea was too powerful that baguette decided to die because frog.

I literally don’t know why I said this.

SparkyProductions

Thank you so much for making this video

amisicro

5:06 Greece was the largest Empire in the world 2.300 years ago, and then fell and rose again in Byzantium, and then fell and rose again today, and then we pay debts to Germany. Nothing remains the same forever

georgios_