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They weren't. Normandy was not part of france
>but-but they spoke french
Half of Europe did at some point, lingua franca, rings a bell?
Is not a ethnic lining, they had borders that limited the entrance of french, they had rivers in between them and france, they had another origin and kneeled to a different ruler.

>but-but the architecture
What? Romanesque which is not french or gothic, which was popular everywhere?
> french forms of governament
They didn't.

French didn't't even existed in fact
There was no relation within the duchy of normandy and france.
If france annexed the netherlands not now nor 1000 years in the future the dutch of the 18th century would be french

As a matter of fact, french ethnically replaced Normans once they conquered the duchy
Who were something like 40% frankish, 20% Danish 20% breton 20% northern gaul.

Anglos are more norman than frogs.

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