Re: French genetics

At 14:07 28/10/98 -0800, you wrote:
>I've a rather important question for anyone who knows something about
>French history: of what racial stock are the French? Are they descended
>from the Germanic tribe called the Franks? If so, what happened to all
>the Romans living there?
>
>In the same vein, where did the Normans come from?
>
>
>Thanks in advance for any information you can give me!
>
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>Josh Brandt-Young <neonwave7@...>
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        As far as I know, the French are over all a mix between the Franks
and the Romans and Celts that lived in the Gaule. I think the Normans were
another germanic tribe like the Franks, but I can't be wrong.

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