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Originally Posted by Fennica
..Not to be overly crafty or anything, but the 36 tribes which formed Gauls are still where they once were.
Of course some were compleatly lost in the course of history, but some have remained and are, well whattya know, in France.
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Wrong again Fennica.
The greater part of the Celts moved to England.
only a few stayed in what is now the Bretagne.
A lot of the Aquitanians moved to Spain and the Belgians live in Belgium now, not in France.
Those who did stay in France are the Franks, a formerly german tribe.
( came with Charlemagne around 770 ad )
Original French read Caesar .
de bello gallico
Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres quarum unam incolunt Belgae, aliam Aquitani, tertiam, qui ipsorum lingua Celtae, nostra galli impelluntur.
So the "Gauls" are not five, but merely one tribe in France, the Celts.
And even they came in from the east and are thus not really french.