My freind, I have been hearing France described as a LATIN land, and the French as a LATIN people my ENTIRE life from my relatives BORN AND RAISED in France. My maman (She is the French one) and my padre (He is the Spaniard) used to talk to us kids ALL the time about how they fell so in love bacause of the qoute Close Latin connection between their two respective lands, as these two found each other in this English-speaking, Protestant land.     I will repeat, I disagree with all of thse things you say, especially in this post. I have seen such betisse before, and it is nothing but Nordicist bull.     Notre Dame de Paris?    Mont St-Michel?    La Sacre Coeur?   Amiens?    Chartres?    Tours?    Nous sommes une peuple CATHOLIQUE!    We are a CATHOLIC people! This you cannot deny!     De nouveau je vais a dire, je ne sui pas d'accord avec votre avis a voir la belle France, et qui sommes nous les francais. France IS a Latin country, but that is from a linguistic perspective because the French language is a mainly Latin derived language. But from an ethnic perspective the country of France is mixed, it is mainly Celtic and Germanic in the Northern and Central regions, mainly Latin in the Southern regions, and in the case of Normandy many if not most of the people are of Viking descent. The name Normandy comes from the Normans, the Normans were Vikings.  Oh and I can't forget about the Germanic contribution to the French gene pool. The Franks were from present day France, the name France comes from Franks, the Franks were a Germanic tribe.  The name France comes from  Latin   Francia , which literally means land of the  Franks  or Frankland.  As you can see here.     Sooo, basically French people as far as ethnicity goes are a mixture of Celtic,Latin,Germanic, and in the Normandy area Norse aka Viking. But France is a Latin country from a linguistic perspective since French is a Latin derived language. Just my 2 cents on the matter at least. Au Revoir.