>Historically Catholic>Hated by all other Catholic nations>Functioned similarly with Protestant nationsWhat went wrong with France?
>>18447461It's one of the most successful nations in the history of mankind, what do you think is wrong with France that is a uniquely French problem and can't be said is a problem that developed nations in general suffer from?
>>18447462unlike spain, italy, or ireland who hardly had witch hunts, france burnt many witchesunlike spain or portugal who integrated with the slaves and natives, france practiced segregation and chattel slaveryunlike spain, portugal, or italy, france is known for being stinky and rude
>>18447461They were ruled by Huguenots (Henry IV and his successors) who falsely converted to Catholicism in the 1580's just to be allowed to reign in France.
>>18447462>It's one of the most successful nations in the history of mankindB8
>>18447461irrelevancy, much like the rest of europe which is now a retirement home for has-been empires
>>18447492illiterate nafri
>>18447461Wrong?
>>18447461france is the central nation of western catholicism alongside italy though. aquinas taught in the university of paris.what exactly went wrong with them? absolutely nothing other than (You) being a retarded nigger with absolutely no clue of the matters you discuss
>>18447465Spain and Portugal had chattel slavery and France did not practice segegation.
>>18447492>The richest and most powerful country in medieval europe>One of the largest empires of all time>One of the most prosperous countries since ww2They are literally in the top three most successful countries in history anon
>>18447461France is cool leave them alone. Yes they are too contrarian and high up their asses but otherwise the other nations who thinks so they are justified
>>18447998>top three most successful countries in historyThe USA and the UK are undisputedly part of the Top 3. That leaves 1 spot open that France needs to fight against Germany and Italy. (Every other country is also wrong, the top 5 is unquestionable)Now, I personaly prefer France to be the 3rd, but I can see some people prefering Germany/Italy and their previous smaller city-states.
>>18447998>>The richest and most powerful country in medieval europeThat would be Spain. France overtook them when medieval times already ended, and even that was short-lived as Britain's naval dominance was emerging at the same time.
>>18447465But Spain did all of that shit overseas
>>18447461>What went wrong with France?They're French for starters
>>18447461Their kings became full of themselves and mislead the nation into satanic ways.
Francophobia is just a big Anglokike psyop like troonism or philosemitism
>>18447461France has always been always anti-catholic becuase of the power struggle between the old king and his lords to choose the new king, with the Church supporting and disagreeing on one side or the other. From Hugues Capet who was the first monarch of his line and was elected king by the lords of the land to be done with the Carolingian line of emperors, to Louis XIV the Sun King and his absolute power who created Versailles as a containment zone for the nobles after La Fronde.The Crusades to go take/keep the Holy Land were basically a ploy by the Catholic Church to keep the Franks lords and kings of Christendom busy so Europe would stop having internal wars every five seconds. They deceived the Byzantines into believing they were defending from Muslims and recovered the Holy Land for them, which Byzantines had guarded from the Sassanids, Jews and Muslims.This is ironic considering that the Byzantines themselves had to ally with the Egyptian Fatimids, who held the Holy Land, against the Turks of the Sultanate of Rum, who seized the Holy Land and central Anatolia from both sides, to finally the Crusaders arrived in a Jerusalem already dominated by the Fatimids, without the Muslim invasion threat of the Turkish Sultanate of Rum against the Byzantines and the Latins, sacked Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade after an exiled Byzantine pretender scammed them, schismed with the East and did not launch any crusade to help them in the Fall of Constantinople because of its other internal conflicts such as the Hundred Years' War.
>>18449363The biggest heresy in Medieval Europe was the Cathars in the South West of France in the 13th century. There were also the schism of the Papacy with a Pope residing in Avignon as well as the one in Rome which lasted 40 years in the end of the 14th century. By the 16th century the Calvinist/Huguenot movement was born and had gained ground among the French Nobility who were mostly disgusted by the practices of the Catholic Church.It sprouted a 40 year bloody conflict ending with a king's assassination who chose on his deathbed a huguenot to rule on the throne (Henry IV, the fact that the founder of the House of Bourbon was a Spanish leader of the Huguenots in France will never cease to be funny and that the French Bourbons betrayed the Spanish Bourbons in the War of the Quadruple Alliance and 1834 Quadruple Alliance, hue) assassinated by a Catholic schizophrenic for granting rights to Protestants, even though he had converted to Catholicism after his relatives were massacred and he was kidnapped at his marriage.After that the struggle went between the absolute monarch and a small portion of the bourgeoisie and low nobility that were part of the Catholic Church yet still splited by thinking that they had the grace of god and therefore should rule (it's called Jansenism). For Jansenist who still remained somewhat loyal to the Church they took upon themselves to destroy the Jesuits and practically managed to do so with the support of Madame de Pompadour, Voltaire and the Philosophes. They also undermined the Catholic Priests at every corner and in any way they could. They also held (first in cemeteries and afterwards indoors) weird "miracle" orgies were convulsing naked ladies were beaten and raped.
>>18447461The French Revolution and the destruction of catholicism in France is the best thing to ever happen to that country
