Re: French genetics

On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Josh Brandt-Young 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?
First, you had the pre-Gauls.  The proto-Gauls came in, whomped heads,
settled down, a few generations later, the Gauls appeared as the
admixture.  Then the Romans came in, whomped heads, settled down, a few
generations later, you had the "Gaulish provincian" admixture.  Then the
Franks and other German tribes came in, settled down, whomped heads,
settled down again, did more head-whomping, finally decided to settle
down, a few generations later, you had the admixture that's the ancestors
of the modern French (more or less).  The Normans were just Vikings who
had gotten past the head-whomping to the settling down phase.  By the
11th century they had married in with everybody else living in northern
Gaul, so Normandy was pretty much an admixed area, too.

Racial purity is for weaklings.