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Originally posted by Jack, the Little Death:
But what I was really thinking was that France was the center of culture in Europe for a really long time. If you really look at the divisions of Europe, historically, what you've got is Scandinavia, Germany, Russia, the Mediterranean, Britain, and France.
You left out the Iberian peninsula.

I don't think there was anything special about France, except that their people were the very first to have a gutful of corrupt monarchies which did nothig for the starving and the poor. They produced Voltaire and Robenspierre and a bunch of other bright and forward thinking men, true, but so did England and Germany.