so, i'm watching democracy now and they have an irish correspondent on and i'm thinking to myself geez, does he ever look french.

which is not surprising, if you know the history. but, let's walk that back just a tad.

the french are named after the franks, of course. of course? well, where did the franks come from?

what year did the franks invade the roman empire? what river did they cross to do it?

so, this would suggest that the area now known as france was in the roman empire before it was called france. what was it called, then?

who made it a province in the empire? what year?

and, so who were the people that lived in france before the romans conquered it? what language did they speak?