France

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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 has 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 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 are tired that everyone associate them to the white flag while because of the World War two while they won a lot of others battles. They are often sad but hide it and rarely satisfied of what they got (they loves to complain). But they are also very proud of themselves. 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, like her sister, Spain, and is 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!

France has a weird obsession for frogs and snails (they eat so many snails now it's a protected specie).

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 called "Le drapeau tricolore", litteraly traduced by "The three-coloured flag".

Others symbols
France has many other important symbols like their anthem "La marseillaise", which talks about killing ennemies (sometimes they wonder if is not a little too violent).

The Gallic rooster (initially used by the Gallics as you can guess), because they wanted their majestic bird and everyone were already using the eagle. The rooster is the king of the barn, it yells very loudly to show how wonderful and proud he is (not such a surprise France choosed him).

Marianne, the allegorie of the French Republic, a woman wearing a Phrygian cap with a tricolor cockade. It's not her on the painting "La liberté guidant le peuple" but Liberty's allegorie !

The motto "Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood" which resumes France's values.

Nicknames
The most popular of them is "L'Hexagone"("The Hexagon") because of the geographic of the country, the borders fit in a hexagon (it don't work if you include the overseas territory).

Etymology
France comes from the latin "Francia", who means "land of the Franks".

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 and UK warned Germany that if he invade Poland, they would enter the war. German did it the first september of the year 1940. The Allies decided first to drill the fronter but then decided to stay behind the Maginot Ligne, because of the fear of a war like the WW1, counting on Belgium to resist. They waited 8 months, since september 1939 to may 1939, it's the "phoney war". But with the material help of the URSS, the Allies blocus became inneficient and Germany passed by Belgium and then arrived in the North of France. Allies were cornered at Dunkerque and many soldiers were saved by the operation dynamo. France was defeated in five weeks, it the debacle. France changed their government (Paul Reynaud was remplaced by the Marshall Petain) and signed the Armistice. Being no longer in the fight with the Allies.

Family

 * Canada- Son


 * United Kingdom- Ex Husband


 * European Union- Son


 * Germany- Husband


 * Spain- Sister/brother

Friends

 * Japan

Neutral

 * Scotland


 * Belgium
 * Luxembourg

Ennemies

 * England
 * Vichy France

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 the United States of America.

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.

Switzerland
France is absolutely crazy about Switzerland's raclette and chocolate, they share their love of skiing.

Spain
"My sister. We had a very turbulent relationship in the past, but now we're good. I think she's with my ex now."

- France's thoughts about Spain

Spain is France's younger sister. They have fought numerous times in the past, but now they get along very well.

Vichy France
France really does hate him, it asks a lot time to them to accept the fact he existed and they fell ashamed about that.

Free France
France absolutely loves Free France, they kinda gives a cult to him.

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. UK is considered as the ex husband of France while Germany as their actual husband.


 * 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.