Concept
French people
Overview
ethnic group of France
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In so far as millions of families live under economic conditions that separate their mode of life, their interests and their culture from those of the other classes, and that place them in an attitude hostile toward the latter, they constitute a class; in so far as there exists only a local connection among these farmers, a connection which the individuality and exclusiveness of their interests prevent from…
Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Close in meaning to French people; the term itself is not named.
Upon reflection, we shall find that most states were formed in the same manner. The French are an assemblage of Goths, of Danes called Normands, of northern Germans, called Burgundians; of Franks, Allmans, and some Romans, mixed with the ancient Celtæ. In Rome and Italy there are several families descended from the people of the North, but none that we know of from the ancient Romans.
Voltaire, The History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia
Close in meaning to French people; the term itself is not named.
The Frenchmen of to-day are no longer the big fair men of old; the Greeks are no longer beautiful enough to serve as a sculptor's model; the very face of the Romans has changed as well as their character; the Persians, originally from Tartary, are daily losing their native ugliness through the intermixture of Circassian blood. Europeans are no longer Gauls, Germans, Iberians, Allobroges; they are all Scythians, more…
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile
Close in meaning to French people; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed French people
- William of Conches
- Sri Aurobindo
- Thiruvalluvar
- Beyond Good and Evil
- Fernando Pessoa
- Charles Renouvier
- Wincenty Lutosławski
- Andrzej Towiański
- François Recanati
Related ideas
- Migration Period
- French language
- French Revolution
- Germany
- German language
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Le Monde
- Hungary
- Haiti
- Great Britain
- Arthur de Gobineau
- Moral universalism
- Italy
- India
- Industrial Revolution
- Individualism
- Julius Caesar
- New France
- Alexis de Tocqueville
- Peru
- South Africa
- Trade union
- Philosophy of history
- London
Opposing perspectives
- Ethnicity
- Germans
- Language
- Race (human categorization)
- Doxa
- Social contract
- Consciousness
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Place in the tradition
Part of French philosophy.