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... Flanders . § 5. Geography and the Nature of French Patriotism • pp . 40-50 CHAPTER IV . THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE . III . WHO AND WHAT ARE THE FRENCH ? -§ 1. Unity and Diversity : What is a National Type ? - 2. Language . - § 3. Ethnology ...
... Flanders . § 5. Geography and the Nature of French Patriotism • pp . 40-50 CHAPTER IV . THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE . III . WHO AND WHAT ARE THE FRENCH ? -§ 1. Unity and Diversity : What is a National Type ? - 2. Language . - § 3. Ethnology ...
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... Flanders . Economic opportunities attracted , and strategic danger retained , the French kings within easy distance of their most exposed frontier , that of the north- east . And the capital grew where Seine , Marne , and Oise converged ...
... Flanders . Economic opportunities attracted , and strategic danger retained , the French kings within easy distance of their most exposed frontier , that of the north- east . And the capital grew where Seine , Marne , and Oise converged ...
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... Flanders . We come at last to French Flanders , drained by the Sam- bre , the Scheldt , and the Lys . The boundary between Belgium and France is absolutely artificial . Flemish is spoken in Hazebrouck , just as French is spoken in Liége ...
... Flanders . We come at last to French Flanders , drained by the Sam- bre , the Scheldt , and the Lys . The boundary between Belgium and France is absolutely artificial . Flemish is spoken in Hazebrouck , just as French is spoken in Liége ...
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... Flanders and Normandy , the Alpine in Savoy , Auvergne and Brittany , the Mediterranean in the Aquitanian and Provençal south . In no other country are more than two of these races fully represented : France is therefore a racial ...
... Flanders and Normandy , the Alpine in Savoy , Auvergne and Brittany , the Mediterranean in the Aquitanian and Provençal south . In no other country are more than two of these races fully represented : France is therefore a racial ...
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... Flanders . The French are blissfully un- conscious of any political or class distinctions based on the cephalic index . Dolichos and brachys have an equal chance . Whoever feels himself French is French , whether his name be Kleber or ...
... Flanders . The French are blissfully un- conscious of any political or class distinctions based on the cephalic index . Dolichos and brachys have an equal chance . Whoever feels himself French is French , whether his name be Kleber or ...
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