J’aime la France, oui, mais – The NORMANS created the « modern England » after 1066, and they were Norwegian, NOT French, in fact they struck fear into the hearts of many Frenchmen, so do get your historical facts correct mon ami!

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& without to insist on the fact that the Army who invade England was in 3/4 made by French soldiers out of Normandy, it is well a French People & the French Way of Live & Language (NEVER FORGET since this time the moto of England in French & not in English or normand or Wiking LOL « DIEU ET MON DROIT » & the motto of the English royalty in Frenc also « Honni soit qui mal y pense ») who invaded England in 1066 & made of the new England after 1066 an old French Colony quite simply

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They dont live as « vikings » or dont spoke a « viking language » (sorry but LOL) BUT they lived as the others peoples of France & especially they SPOKE ONLY FRENCH
For your informations the most part of the « Captains » & the Army of Guillaume le Conquérant (‘William the Conqueror’ for you) came out of Normandy from the others parts of France (3/4 soldiers)

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For another marking example : « your » king « Richard Heart of Lion » that the old untrue English propaganda learn & show as a perfect English king was actually… French & much more French than English & he spoke ONLY FRENCH (yes sorry for your proud ^^)

The famous French Stateman Georges Clemenceau (called « the Father Victory » because he was the 1st Minister of France during the WW1) resume perfectly all that when he said :

« England is an old colony of France… who turn down » ^^

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2- « Why are French women so sexy? Ever since 1066, we’ve been enthralled by the innate superiority of the French female » (Helena Frith Powell)

3- « During the 2 centuries & a half after the Conquest in 1066, there is no English history. The FRENCH Kings of England rose to an eminence which was the wonder of all nations » (Thomas Babington Macauley)

4- « Everything that is courteous, honourable & elegant in the English culture comes from the French invasion (of 1066) » (Walter Scott)

I am very well educated, actually, perhaps you should be better educated in your froggy mind yourself, as clearly, Britain ruled 25% of the world’s land and one-third of its populace, the French have been failures for centuries, never hoping to dominate as other countries have done so, Germany has made a mockery of you, and even when the Normans came, who were NOT French, so clearly you are uneducated as you do not know this simple fact, they had Saxons working for them, so learn your history!

No, your ignorance is beyond belief, you have ignored my statement twice, you are a false, tiny little French propagandist – the Normans were NOT French, research it right now you fool, you have this kind of French little man complex whereby you have to lie to try and cover up for any kind of culture, the English could whip France in a war right now if we so wished, we also saved you twice in the past century, also, your childish nature reinforces that you are an idiot. Normans were not French!

This is not ‘old propaganda’ you idiot, it is historical fact, the Normans were not French, they were from Norway, and everybody else on this video can see that you are an idiot as you are refuting the truth from someone who is very well-educated, unlike yourself, who cannot speak English or indeed French I’ll bet! Your stupid French propaganda has made you sour towards the country which has saved yours several times! You are an idiot, France belongs to English Kings! Stop crying little froggy!

They were. As duke of Normandy, William was French King’s vassal and Normandy a part of the Kingdom of France.
Watch on the encyclopedia Britannica a map of France in 987, and you’ll see it by yourself.

Of course, viking people settled here, but at the time of William, they were already speaking a kind of French (langues d’oil) . And that’s why a lots of words, in particular in politic or in the army, look like in both actual languages.
(Don’t tell me that « Dieu et mon droit » is in viking)

You talk about assimilation, but do you know what is it? You’re not even able to accept that after 150 years of living under the French rule, and speaking a kind of French, they were not vikings anymore.

And the language has something to do with it, if they were still vikings, the language of English aristocracy during 3 centuries would have never been anglo-norman, which is a langue d’oil language.

And also, might I add, they were NOT living under French rule, they were more powerful than the French ‘crown’, and even if they were under French rule, this would not annihilate their culture identity, and you have made a massively foolish blunder in saying that ‘Anglo-Norman’ is a langue d’oïl language! It is nothing of the sort. Many roots come from Saxon, the previous languages of the localities, Latin, partially French, yes, but nothing that would make it a langue d’oïl, big mistake!

Well, clearly you have not grasped that France was not the nation it is now back then, and any grasping of ‘identity’ is not only highly unlikely but also extremely out of place. The Franks were the original ‘French’, and their descendants are the French, adopting a language does not mean adopting national identity, ethnic identity, or any similar identity for that matter. Christian faith was obviously accepted, but the power of the Normans was well-known, they had their own empire!