Name Of France
The name France comes from Latin Francia, which literally means "land of the Franks".
Originally it applied to the whole Empire of the Franks, extending from southern France to eastern Germany.
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“The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)