quinta-feira, 7 de outubro de 2010

FRENCH: The French civilization influenced many nations with its tastes and paradigms



The idea of a French civilization dates back to the merger process between the Roman and Gallic cultures in ancient times. At that time, the incursion of the Germanic peoples in the Western Roman Empire was responsible for the consolidation of a number of cultural practices and political institutions that defined the birth of a new setting in the ancient region of Gaul.
In the Middle Ages, contradicting the strong political decentralization of the time, the kingdom of the Franks established the most influential monarchy throughout medieval Europe. During this period, dynasties and emperors of this kingdom contributed to the establishment of Christianity in Europe. The association between Church and State was a practice that characterized the medieval Frank kingdom.
The dissolution of this monarchy, which occurred between the 9th and 10th centuries, meant that the power of feudal lords had great importance. From the historical point of view, the French territory was one of the places where feudal practices had greater presence across Europe. Not coincidentally, the privilege of the nobility class lasted for a long time and still preserved some remnants in the 19th century.
In the modern era, the formation of national monarchies undertook a series of wars where the organization of a strong and centralized state begins to take force. The Hundred Years' War and the various religious conflicts appear in the construction of a French government limited by the strength of royal power. In the end, in the arrival of the 18th century, France would live a peak, and soon after, the crisis of the absolutist regime.
Establishing the passage of the Modern Age to Contemporary, the French gone through a revolutionary process able to transform the shape of half the world. The famous French Revolution instituted political ideals that, despite its limits, rocked the monarchical European hegemony and, at the same time, allowed the development of the uprisings that ends the colonial order on American soil.
For a long time, France became a synonym for avant-garde and experimentalism that made its capital, Paris, in the historic City of Light. The influence of French culture reached a point where, in the first decades of the 20th century, importing of its fashions and customs had ample space in the great Brazilian urban centers.

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