Charlemagne was a Gaul/French

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Why people often claim that the Franks were Germanic, when they were infact Gauls ?

I mean, it is obvious that they were Gauls sicne they wore Gaulish name like Laniogaisus, and spoke Gaulish language as proved by their Gaulish names.

Even Franks like Charlemagne admited their Gallic Ancestry, quote related :


The Monk of Saint Gall: The Life of Charlemagne


>And his teaching bore such fruit among his pupils that THE MODERN GAULS OR FRANKS came to equal the ancient Romans or Athenians.
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>When Julian,whom God hated, was slain in the Persian war by a blow from heaven, not only did the transmarine provinces fall away from the Roman Empire, but also the neighbouring provinces of Pannonia, Noricum, Rhætia, or in other words the Germans and THE FRANKS OR GAULS.
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>Then too THE KINGS OF THE FRANKS (OR GAULS) began to decay in power because they had slain Saint Didier, Bishop of Vienna, and had expelled those most holy visitors, Columban and Gall.
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>Whereupon the race of the Huns,who had already OFTEN RAVAGED FRANCIA AND AQUITANIA (THAT IS TO SAY THE GAULS AND THE SPAINS)