Summary Of Sixty Million Frenchmen Can T Be Wrong
The Aboriginals of France As Americans, it is hard to understand the deep history and culture of a country like France. Most of American history is only five hundred to one thousand years old depending on how far back you choose to look at Native American history. As we look at France history as far back as the cave paintings, but real first recorded history of France is seen as 600 BCE when the Greek controlled a part of modern France. France is a country of rich history and culture. The Authors of Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong used the words native and aboriginals to describe the citizens of France. I agree with the authors opinion of the French people as a people who want to preserve their history, who try to save their customs as they incorporate them into the modern world. Though their history of civil dissidence, how the l’état works and their preservation of their history they achieve the goal of keeping old mentalities in the modern world.
The first example of the French incorporating their past into the modern world is their recent examples of civil dissidence …show more content…
Therefore, they go through great length to try to preserve as much culture and historical sites throughout the country. A major belief in France is one of Patrimony, which is the process of passing on things that belong to the people before them. This can be property, institution, corporation but also abstract ideas like culture. Though Patrimony the property of ancient and historical locations has been passed on to generation after generation of French people. Allowing all generations to enjoy these locations like the Pont de Gard which is a 1st century Roman aqueduct. If you walked down the wide streets of Paris those are the streets build back in the 19th century. The citizens of France have history all around them. They can live their daily lives with their modern customs but also have the old mentalities of France surround
The first example of the French incorporating their past into the modern world is their recent examples of civil dissidence …show more content…
Therefore, they go through great length to try to preserve as much culture and historical sites throughout the country. A major belief in France is one of Patrimony, which is the process of passing on things that belong to the people before them. This can be property, institution, corporation but also abstract ideas like culture. Though Patrimony the property of ancient and historical locations has been passed on to generation after generation of French people. Allowing all generations to enjoy these locations like the Pont de Gard which is a 1st century Roman aqueduct. If you walked down the wide streets of Paris those are the streets build back in the 19th century. The citizens of France have history all around them. They can live their daily lives with their modern customs but also have the old mentalities of France surround