One of the main remains of the era of Nations is that "basic history" is still founded on the mythical national narratives (witness the Antilles descendants of black slaves learning "our ancestors the Gauls"); in France it includes the Greeks traditionally, but does it in Germany ?

For example Charlemagne is included in the national narrative both in the French and German schools, although French people have no idea that Charlemagne was a probably more Germanic than Roman...

 

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