Who was the first to conquer France?

Answer 1

That is a hard thing to answer. The "France" area before the foundation of kings was first conquered by Julius Caeser when he claimed the area between the Po river, the Rhine river, and to the Basque mountains. That was the basis for Gaul or France as we know of it today. After the empire fell, Charlemagne took all of France, Spain, and large parts of Germany and Italy. The region of "France" was disputed, because it included parts of the Rhineland. France finally formed after the breakup of the empire, when castles caused divisions and the start of a feudal system. Once France was united to relatively modern borders by kings, the stayed intact even during the assualts of the English, who took an area auround normandy and calais, but never conquered France completly, but the English had multiple ties to power. The true first conquering of the state of France was during the Franco-Prussian war, when Otto Von Bismarck and the German Union marched on Paris. Even then, it took until World War 2 before it was truly conquered, when the German-Nazi armies took all of France and declared half of France "Vichy France". The divisions that seperate Frances border and elsewhere was pretty liquid until V-E day occured and France was given up to teh Rhine river, and germany was given back the Rhineland, as well as the seperation of the Orange Low Countries.