France

France is a country in the West of Europe and a member of the European Union. It is the neighbour of Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Germany and Belgium. It have an access to the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and to the Channel.

France is not the most popular character compared to Russia or The United States but still have a place in fan's hearts.

Appearance
France is often wearing the French clichés clothes as the striped jersey, red scarf and beret (you'll never see a French wearing these three things at the same time). France is represented as a man but also as a woman.

Personality
France is often shows as a very sensible and romantic person, but sometimes as cruel (when it is about colonization and the Empire). Also rebel more because of the recent protest march of the "gilet jaune" than the French Revolution.

They is tired that everyone associate him to the white flag while because of the World War two while he won a lot of others battles. He's often sad but hide it and rarely satisfied of what he gots (he loves to complain). But he's also very proud of himself.France often take a break and go on strike when something displease they, but since many things anoys France, things don't really moves for them.

Interests
France is into football, really proud of their two victory in 1998 and 2018, tennis, petanque and bycicling (Tour de France). France loves cooking and food, especially baguette (bread in general), cheese and wine chich he's really proud of. But they is tired of everyone giving him the invention of French fries (Belgian) and croissant (Austrich). They has really good food (which don't come from anothers countries) like the quiche Lorraine, the boeuf Bourguignon and the crêpe!

Flag meaning
The blue and the red are the colours of Paris, the white the colour of nobility. They surround the white to show the power of the people on the aristocratie. This flag was adopted in 1794 and inspired by the three coloured cockade.It is also called "Le drapeau tricolore", litteraly traduced by "The three-coloured flag".

Gaul
Gaul was a region of Europe which included actual France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Switzerland, the North of Italy and a part of Netherlands and Germany, '''the named countries are a landmark for the reader but none of these existed in these times. '''

Second World War
The defeat: France entered the war with the United Kingdom after Poland get invaded by the Third Reich the first september of the year 1940. They started to drill the fronter and gain grounds in ennemies territory but then both decided to stay behind the Maginot Ligne, thinking the nazis would take the same path as WW1 (both stilled traumatized by the precedent war and wanted to avoid so much victims). So they waited for the ennemy, the "phoney war" lasted from september 3,1939 to may 10,1940. They counted on the fact the blocus would weaken the ennemy, but the pact between URSS and Germany guarantee a material help to the Third Reich, things Allies didn't foresee. The Germans ignored the Maginot Ligne and passed by Belgium, arrived in France by the North, things they also didn't planned, thinking the country would be strong enough to avoid this. Allies were cornered at Dunkerque, but thanks to the operation dynamo Brittish citizens who had a boat came and saved many Allies soldiers. French population in the North tried to escape, it's the "exode" but the German's planes bombed them on the roads, they also destroy railways and factories. The French army was really good but the military strategy, they wanted to secure not to attack, in five weeks French army is defeated, it's the debacle ( it can explain but the fact German had way more planes than the Allies and so could easily destroy tanks). The gorvernement moved it's capital to Bordeaux in junes the 10thin 1940, so it was harder to reach. The Germans reached Paris the 18 of this same month. In junes 17th1940 the president Paul Reynaud resigned and is remplaced by the hero of Verdun: Marshall Petain who ordered to stop the fights. The next day the general Charles de Gaulles who took refuge in London use the BBC to tell French people to continue to fight, but not many heard him. In junes 22th, the Marshall signed the Armistice.

Vichy's regime
The Armistice signed the end of the Third Republic and the start of the Occupation. France was divided in two zones, one fully occupied by the nazis, the other named the "French free zone" where with the governement of Vichy with Marshall Petain at it's top, which collaborated with the Germans. France also loosed the Alsace and the Lorraine, 2 millions of French soldiers were prisonner in Germany and had to pay occupation's charges ( a certain percentage of it's GDP). In July 10thPetain obtained the full power and decided to fully changes the country, he instituted a personnality cult and changed the motto "liberty, equality, brotherhood" by "work, family, motherland", suspended the elections and aplied censorship. He holded the Third Republic responsible for the defeat.

United Kingdom
France seems to have a strong relation with the United Kingdom because of the old rivalry and the alliance during the first and the second World Wars, which is romantic. This resulted in them marrying and having a child (Canada existed well before the Allies, this part need to be detailed), Canada. However, they broke up later on and UK married France's sister, Spain, who is the mother of all of his children except for Canada.

Germany
People also like to ship France and Germany, which create a rivalry between Germany and the United Kingdom. It becomes unhealthy when it is about Nazi Germany because of the occupation, but with the creation of the European Union they became closet than ever. Germany is France's husband and they care a lot for each other - they were close enough to have a child, European Union who is charged to keep peace and cohesion in Europe.

England
Do not confuse the United Kingdom with England. England and France has always hates each others don't miss an occasion to make fun of each others. France nicknames England "Rosbeef" refered by the colour of his army and the joke that there is no sun in England so when English people try to tan they get a sunburn instead. While England calls France "Froggies" refered to the fact he likes to eat frog's legs. But even with these difficulties and their past ( the Hundred Year War's) they still like each other.

Japan
France is fascinated by Japan thanks to the manga and anime which were massively imported in the 80's and 90's and still very popular. This fascination is on both side, Japan keeps a very romantic and sophisticated image of France. . France isill at ease with the manji, which has a good meaning in Japan but remind darks times to most of the countries of Europe.

Belgium
France and Belgium love making fun of each others, there is a debate between them about how to say 70,80 and 90 (French is one the official language of Belgium, not the only one). But despite this they still like each other.

United States of America
France helped The United-States to win the war of Independence and gave him Lady Liberty to celebrate their victory. The United-States were a precious help during the first and second World Wars, with the Allies he free France from the German occupation. So the two countries have good relations. France is also his aunt and godmother, which explains their close relationship.

Canada
Canada is France's son, and she loves him very dearly. The two of them have a lot of mother-son outings, all the while speaking French of course, but the language developped in different ways for them which sometimes brought confusion and misunderstanding, but they also found each others accent very funny. France is somewhat over-protective of Canada, since she deeply regrets how she abandoned him, even if it was a long time ago (France gave up Nouvelle-France (aka Canada) to England, little by little).

European Union
EU is France's son, and she cares about him deeply and expect he will be able to keep peace in Europe.

Trivia

 * These are not factual, and more about what the Countryhumans community think.


 * France creates a lot of ship controversy in the fandom. It is almost as if the fandom is divided in two whether to ship UK and France or Germany and France.
 * France is depicted in a lot of drawings with the stereotypical baguette, wine and croissant.
 * France is pictured a lot saying "honhonhon" in comics.
 * It is assumed by some that her son is Russia.