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Why didn’t the French settle New Caledonia and turn it into a settler colony like Australia, NZ, Canada etc?
New Caledonia seems very liveable and green to me, and perfect for a settler colony. so why didn’t the French settle New Caledonia?
Today New Caledonia has only 268k people and is only 24.1% is European.
I heard France also used to send many of its convicts to New Caledonia and used it as a penal colony, just like the uk did with Australia. Why didn’t France go that same route and turn it from a penal colony to a settler colony?
Was Spain viewed as a “backwards” country in the 1400s? How did other European countries basically view Spain during this time?
I was reading up on the Borgias, and I learned that italians were extremely unhappy that a Spanish man had become the pope.
This is from the wiki: The Spaniards had been trying to take back their country from the Moors for almost 800 years. By the middle of the 15th century, this reconquest was almost complete, but Spain was still a hodgepodge of competing principalities and, because of its constant state of warfare, still a very backward country. In Italy, on the other hand, the Renaissance, which had hardly begun in Spain, had reached its high point and the Italians, in general, did not look kindly on a citizen of this backward country being elevated to the highest post in the Church. Remember, too, that the pope at the time, besides his spiritual powers, was a sovereign political power with large areas of the peninsula, nominally, at least, under his control.
TIL that contrary to popular belief, medieval Western European women married at usually later ages, like their mid to late 20s. Getting married any younger was extremely rare and often scandalous. Only 25% of women aged 20-24 were married in Western Europe, while this number was over 75% outside.
en.wikipedia.orgTIL most people in France did not speak French as recently as 1794, when only 11% of the population of France spoke fluent French. Instead, most people spoke regional languages like Occitan, Breton, Alsatian etc. French only became the majority language later on due to heavy assimilation efforts.
afberkeley.orgEpisode stories you’d like to see made into a tv series?
for me, it’s. definitely the Ruby tiara. it’s AMAZING. The plot, the intrigue, the court drama, everything. i love how real the world feels, how there’s so much lore, how it actually feels like we exist in the world of the ruby tiara, which has its own kingdoms, how time is measured, cultures of the different nations etc. and of course, ethanian dancing.
I love how alive the world feels, it’s so interesting. I’m on my second playthrough of the Ruby tiara, and I love it.
During the French Revolution, France embarked on dechristianizing itself, by replacing Christianity with the deist cult of the supreme being, the Julian Calendar was replaced with a newly made secular republican one, which held 0 connection to religion and many churches were destroyed.
en.wikipedia.orgNorth western Italy was already below replacement by 1952, and had extremely low fertility rates like 1.49 in piedmont in 1952, while Sardinia had 3.80 fertility.
Serbia has been below replacement since 1957
And it has never been above replacement since 1957, except 1960.
This is crazy to me. because even western European nations, America/Canada and Aus/NZ all fell out of replacement fertility in the late 1960s to the mid 1970s. but Serbia, a Eastern European country fell below it in 1957 and never has been above it.
I have been rate limited, but I don’t understand why?
I just randomly. got rate limited rn, I can’t text anyone, I can’t search anything up. idk ow this happened, I haven’t sent too many dms recently, I’ve barley. Sent any in the past 2 months, I haven’t changed my pfp or anything. My account is from 2019, what happened? How is it fixed??
i can’t Message anyone, it shows everyone as add friends to me. This account really old and I have a lot of friends here, I’m really confused on what’s happened. Is it permenant? Is it a suspension???
Has anybody watched Swann In Love from 1984? Did you like it?
Its a French film from 1984.
This is the synopsis from letterboxd: In Belle Époque Paris, a 19th-century Parisian aristocrat falls in love with a lower-class prostitute who seduces him but never loves him.
The Occitans from what I’ve heard had their own culture, language and were very different from a Parisian in Paris. I don’t think the Occitans and their culture/language is truly extinct, but it feels like its very close to extinct. it didn't survive like how Catalan culture/identity/identity of their ethnicity did in Spain or other Spanish like the basque etc.
What caused the Occitans to lose their distinct unique identity in southern France? Now I think they’re just viewed as French, unlike the Catalans who view themselfs as ethnically Catalan first, culturally Catalan first etc.