Question

what were the reasons for the declining conditions of France

Answer 1

France long ago elected to sink its national capital into things that last - strong international and domestic culture, neo-colonialism, an independent military, and a nationalism of the middle road between the repentant German kitty and the insecure English wildcat. This means the last remaining Catholic great power is also the only European country willing and able to waltz between Russia and America; the alternative being the enviable fate of Austria, the other European centre of power before the industrial boom.

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