Why is Corsica a part of France? Documentary
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Date: 2022-07-19
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Why is Corsica part of France? Simple! Because France bought or rather conquered the island, although it used to be more Italian than French! France also conquered Catalan-speaking Roussillon! France conquered the northern part of the Basque-country with its unique culture and language, not being related to any other known language in the world! France conquered Brittany with its Celtic heritage and language! France conquered the Flemish/Dutch-speaking Pas-de Calais/Westhoek and the German-speaking Alsace and Eastern-Lorraine! Even earlier, the North conquered the South with its Occitan culture and language, which is related to French, but distinct all the same! If the South were an independent country, Occitan would be a Romance language of its own, just like Portuguese, Spanish, French and Italian! How did France do it? She was the most powerful nation-state in Europe very early on at the beginning of the modern era, around 1500, united by her kings during the Middle Ages, while the rest of Europe was still divided by feudalism and politically and militarily weak! The countries around France weren't able to put up much of a resistance when the French invaded with their modern armies and took the territories they considered vital for the defence of their realm, irrespectively of the cultures and languages of those territories! The term is natural borders, e. g. rivers or mounains that can be easily fortified and defended! The French kings were tolerant of their foreign provinces, they didn't interfere with their internal affairs, as long as they were loyal and paid their dues! That changed with the French Revolution of 1789! Nowadays, there is not much left of the aforementioned local cultures and languages! France will soon be a country that is exclusively French in language and culture!
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Why is Corsica part of France? Simple! Because France bought or rather conquered the island, although it used to be more Italian than French! France also conquered Catalan-speaking Roussillon! France conquered the northern part of the Basque-country with its unique culture and language, not being related to any other known language in the world! France conquered Brittany with its Celtic heritage and language! France conquered the Flemish/Dutch-speaking Pas-de Calais/Westhoek and the German-speaking Alsace and Eastern-Lorraine! Even earlier, the North conquered the South with its Occitan culture and language, which is related to French, but distinct all the same! If the South were an independent country, Occitan would be a Romance language of its own, just like Portuguese, Spanish, French and Italian! How did France do it? She was the most powerful nation-state in Europe very early on at the beginning of the modern era, around 1500, united by her kings during the Middle Ages, while the rest of Europe was still divided by feudalism and politically and militarily weak! The countries around France weren't able to put up much of a resistance when the French invaded with their modern armies and took the territories they considered vital for the defence of their realm, irrespectively of the cultures and languages of those territories! The term is natural borders, e. g. rivers or mounains that can be easily fortified and defended! The French kings were tolerant of their foreign provinces, they didn't interfere with their internal affairs, as long as they were loyal and paid their dues! That changed with the French Revolution of 1789! Nowadays, there is not much left of the aforementioned local cultures and languages! France will soon be a country that is exclusively French in language and culture!
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giampiero
Corsica is geographically, historically and socially Italian. But from a legal point of view? Well, it's Italian.
Can Corsica legitimately make itself independent from France under international law?
According to the interpretation given to the concept of French sovereignty on the island in articles 3 and 4 of the Treaty of Versailles of 1768, it would be equivalent not to the concept of PROPERTY, but rather of POSSESSION in civil law.
Therefore, the sovereignty over Corsica acquired by France with the Treaty of Versailles of 1768 WOULD NOT EQUAL OWNERSHIP OF THE ISLAND, since the same Serenissima Republic of Genoa which ceded Corsica to France for the debts contracted, WOULD HAVE ENJOYED ONLY THE TEMPORARY POSSESSION OF THE ISLAND CORSICA, because formally the ownership of the island would remain de iure to the Papal State.
Among other things, Article 4 of the Treaty of Versailles of 1768 left formal sovereignty over Corsica to the Republic of Genoa and the ownership of the island to the Papal State, suppressed de jure with the Concordat of 1929, which even established that its juridical appurtenances passed to the Italian State!
THEREFORE, NOT HAVING THE OWNERSHIP OF THE ISLAND, BUT ONLY THE TEMPORARY POSSESSION OF CORSICA, FRANCE HAS NEVER BEEN ABLE TO REGISTER THE 1768 TREATY OF VERSAILLES AT THE U. N. THE PROPERTY OF THE ISLAND WAS OF THE PONTIFICAL STATE AND IT PASSED TO THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC IN 1929 (CONCORDATO ITALIA / STATO PONTIFICIO.
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Corsica is geographically, historically and socially Italian. But from a legal point of view? Well, it's Italian.
Can Corsica legitimately make itself independent from France under international law?
According to the interpretation given to the concept of French sovereignty on the island in articles 3 and 4 of the Treaty of Versailles of 1768, it would be equivalent not to the concept of PROPERTY, but rather of POSSESSION in civil law.
Therefore, the sovereignty over Corsica acquired by France with the Treaty of Versailles of 1768 WOULD NOT EQUAL OWNERSHIP OF THE ISLAND, since the same Serenissima Republic of Genoa which ceded Corsica to France for the debts contracted, WOULD HAVE ENJOYED ONLY THE TEMPORARY POSSESSION OF THE ISLAND CORSICA, because formally the ownership of the island would remain de iure to the Papal State.
Among other things, Article 4 of the Treaty of Versailles of 1768 left formal sovereignty over Corsica to the Republic of Genoa and the ownership of the island to the Papal State, suppressed de jure with the Concordat of 1929, which even established that its juridical appurtenances passed to the Italian State!
THEREFORE, NOT HAVING THE OWNERSHIP OF THE ISLAND, BUT ONLY THE TEMPORARY POSSESSION OF CORSICA, FRANCE HAS NEVER BEEN ABLE TO REGISTER THE 1768 TREATY OF VERSAILLES AT THE U. N. THE PROPERTY OF THE ISLAND WAS OF THE PONTIFICAL STATE AND IT PASSED TO THE ITALIAN REPUBLIC IN 1929 (CONCORDATO ITALIA / STATO PONTIFICIO.
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Lucas
i'm from corsica, and i can say you miss so much thing. France seem to be a bad guy in your video, but many times in the event you mentioned corsica fight to stay french. like in the short period when british where on the island, corsican republican fights to join back France and won, many corsican at the times supporting french revolution, including napoleon bonaparte family. when you said italian was the most spoken language you're wrong it was corsican, and when mussolini take the island during the ww2 the corsican resistance fight and corsica became the first french territory free of german/italian occupation. I know there is some independancy mouvement growing up in our island, but still a lot of us are proud to be French and you should respect that (sorry for my english.
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i'm from corsica, and i can say you miss so much thing. France seem to be a bad guy in your video, but many times in the event you mentioned corsica fight to stay french. like in the short period when british where on the island, corsican republican fights to join back France and won, many corsican at the times supporting french revolution, including napoleon bonaparte family. when you said italian was the most spoken language you're wrong it was corsican, and when mussolini take the island during the ww2 the corsican resistance fight and corsica became the first french territory free of german/italian occupation. I know there is some independancy mouvement growing up in our island, but still a lot of us are proud to be French and you should respect that (sorry for my english.
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Kjell
2 things there is a joke on 2: 20 It has the national moto in french on the left and treacle waffles are delicious in dutch on the right. Made me laugh
This won't ever get seen by the creator but, stroopwafels are more of a dutch thing, the Belgian waffles are Brussels or Liege, and no Flemish people speaking dutch does not make them so, case in point I have never eaten a stroopwafel in my life yet love Brussels and Liege waffles
So please change the stroopwafels are heerlijk to an actual Belgian waffle.
-random guy from Flanders
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2 things there is a joke on 2: 20 It has the national moto in french on the left and treacle waffles are delicious in dutch on the right. Made me laugh
This won't ever get seen by the creator but, stroopwafels are more of a dutch thing, the Belgian waffles are Brussels or Liege, and no Flemish people speaking dutch does not make them so, case in point I have never eaten a stroopwafel in my life yet love Brussels and Liege waffles
So please change the stroopwafels are heerlijk to an actual Belgian waffle.
-random guy from Flanders
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Nicholas
The Corsicans speak Italian, so Corsica should become part of Italy, as should Italian-speaking Switzerland! Mind you, Italy has no right to mainly German-speaking South Tyrol and French-speaking Aosta! It just goes to show that many frontiers in Europe are an utter shambles! Of course, ultimately all this is irrelevant as we should all be addressing humanity's greatest problem: climate change and the sixth mass extinction!
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The Corsicans speak Italian, so Corsica should become part of Italy, as should Italian-speaking Switzerland! Mind you, Italy has no right to mainly German-speaking South Tyrol and French-speaking Aosta! It just goes to show that many frontiers in Europe are an utter shambles! Of course, ultimately all this is irrelevant as we should all be addressing humanity's greatest problem: climate change and the sixth mass extinction!
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Arold
Funny story, Napoleon is in fact from Corsica to the point he only learned french during his teenage years. His family was involved with the Corsica independentist movement led by Pascal Paoli but ended up to be kicked out of Corsica in 1792/1793 because this Paoli ended up mistrusting him for various reasons. Napoleon ended up in Paris and thus made his career in the french military, with the rest of the story well known.
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Funny story, Napoleon is in fact from Corsica to the point he only learned french during his teenage years. His family was involved with the Corsica independentist movement led by Pascal Paoli but ended up to be kicked out of Corsica in 1792/1793 because this Paoli ended up mistrusting him for various reasons. Napoleon ended up in Paris and thus made his career in the french military, with the rest of the story well known.
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United
The real reason Corsica is part of France is the same reason for which France owns huge numbers of foreign artifacts (Greek, Italian, Roman, Egyptian, etc. It's because France steals from its neighbors (La Savoia, Nizza, Alsace, Lorraine, Basque, etc. For sure, Corsica had never been throughout its history French, Frankish, Burgundy, etc, etc. NEVER.
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The real reason Corsica is part of France is the same reason for which France owns huge numbers of foreign artifacts (Greek, Italian, Roman, Egyptian, etc. It's because France steals from its neighbors (La Savoia, Nizza, Alsace, Lorraine, Basque, etc. For sure, Corsica had never been throughout its history French, Frankish, Burgundy, etc, etc. NEVER.
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TeribleSoldier
Italy in 1914:
Historical Italian lands colonies in africa partially industrialised regions in france and the dream of greater italy fullfilling < some dumb islands in the adriatic promised by the 2 biggest snitches of the 19th/20th century
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Italy in 1914:
Historical Italian lands colonies in africa partially industrialised regions in france and the dream of greater italy fullfilling < some dumb islands in the adriatic promised by the 2 biggest snitches of the 19th/20th century
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Gilles
The French bought Corsica from the Genoese (as stated in the video) in 1767 and the troops took control in 1769. Despite this, the troops in the video have the tricolor cockade on their uniforms which was a revolutionary symbol only created in 1789.
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The French bought Corsica from the Genoese (as stated in the video) in 1767 and the troops took control in 1769. Despite this, the troops in the video have the tricolor cockade on their uniforms which was a revolutionary symbol only created in 1789.
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Christopher
Whenever Italian and French diplomats met, in the '30s, there were always some Fascist blackshirts camine neri on the sidelines, chanting 'Tunisia! Corsica! Nice! '
The lands Italy claimed that the French had taken from them.
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Whenever Italian and French diplomats met, in the '30s, there were always some Fascist blackshirts camine neri on the sidelines, chanting 'Tunisia! Corsica! Nice! '
The lands Italy claimed that the French had taken from them.
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Connor
You should do one on France owning St. Pierre and Miquelon which is 20km from Canada. Fun fact too Canada is officially closer to France then the UK is (at the time of this comment if something changes in the future)
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You should do one on France owning St. Pierre and Miquelon which is 20km from Canada. Fun fact too Canada is officially closer to France then the UK is (at the time of this comment if something changes in the future)
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Scorpion
1: 11 Sell it? The treaty makes no mention of a sale, it was supposed to be borrowed by France till the rebellion was crushed, what happened instead was the French kept it and the Genoese could do nothing about it.
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1: 11 Sell it? The treaty makes no mention of a sale, it was supposed to be borrowed by France till the rebellion was crushed, what happened instead was the French kept it and the Genoese could do nothing about it.
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Marcelo
The hero of Central American union was Francisco Morazan. He was a great general and his family was originally Morazzani from the island of Corsica. That fighting spirit has been strong in Corsican blood.
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The hero of Central American union was Francisco Morazan. He was a great general and his family was originally Morazzani from the island of Corsica. That fighting spirit has been strong in Corsican blood.
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Arthur
you could simply write the names of your patreons at the end instead of saying them one by one on every video. But this is the only negative thing i have to say, great content for sure!
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you could simply write the names of your patreons at the end instead of saying them one by one on every video. But this is the only negative thing i have to say, great content for sure!
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Arecus
Well this is important because they bought it in 1768 and napoleon was born a year after which made him french so he could do all the stuff we remembered him for.
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Well this is important because they bought it in 1768 and napoleon was born a year after which made him french so he could do all the stuff we remembered him for.
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mellilore
None will ever ask, but the same thing happened to Nice as well. Now go figure why Italians generally speaking don't like their north-western neighborhood.
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None will ever ask, but the same thing happened to Nice as well. Now go figure why Italians generally speaking don't like their north-western neighborhood.
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ZeubiZeren
i would like corasia independant, wait 5 years go there and write the next senario of just cause 5 with lots of sutpid minnons shooting to publics stuff
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i would like corasia independant, wait 5 years go there and write the next senario of just cause 5 with lots of sutpid minnons shooting to publics stuff
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Astral
Fun fact: Vatican once offered france the Comtat Venaissin, the papal part of Provence, against Corsica, but France said that it would'nt be worth it
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Fun fact: Vatican once offered france the Comtat Venaissin, the papal part of Provence, against Corsica, but France said that it would'nt be worth it
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KFW
Corsicans are similar to Tuscans genetically with a moderate Sardinian input. Nothing French about them but 50% of France now have foreign origins
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Corsicans are similar to Tuscans genetically with a moderate Sardinian input. Nothing French about them but 50% of France now have foreign origins
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Didier
France doesn't own Corsica; Corsica is a region of France. On the other hand, to illustrate the semantics, you can say the USA owns the UK.
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France doesn't own Corsica; Corsica is a region of France. On the other hand, to illustrate the semantics, you can say the USA owns the UK.
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