Francophilia
Francophilia or gallophilia (word formations with a suffix from the ancient Greek φιλία philía “friendship”, “love”, “affection”) denotes the love of non- French people for everything French. This can be France itself, but also its history , language , cuisine , literature or the same from French-speaking regions such as French-speaking Switzerland , Quebec or Wallonia .
The antonym to Francophilia is Francophobia , the fear of or aversion to anything French.
Francophilia in the Rhineland
In the German-speaking countries (at least after the French Revolution ), the inhabitants of the Rhineland were considered relatively Francophile for a long time . During the Napoleonic era , the left bank of the Rhine belonged to France and experienced many of the reforms that the French Revolution brought about (introduction of the civil code , abolition of compulsory guilds and the introduction of freedom of trade, extensive bourgeois emancipation of the Jews, etc.). After the Congress of Vienna , most of the Rhineland came to the predominantly Protestant Prussia , which was felt by many Catholic Rhinelanders as foreign rule (" Musspreußen "). One expression of the anti-Prussian movements were the attempts to found a Rhenish Republic dependent on France after the First World War under the protection of the French occupying power - attempts which, however, failed due to the resistance of the overwhelming majority of the population.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Müller: The dictionary of counterwords: a contrasting dictionary with instructions for use. de Gruyter, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-11-016885-5 , p. 192. (online)
- ^ "Los von Berlin": The Rhine State Efforts after the First World War. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-11106-9 , p. 421. (online)