France

France officially the French Republic (French: République française [ʁepyblik fʁɑ̃sɛz]), is a unitary sovereign state comprising territory in western Europe and several overseas regions and territories.[note 13] Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean; France covers 640,679 square kilometres (247,368 sq mi) and has a population of 66.6 million. It is a semi-presidential republic with its capital in Paris, the nation's largest city and the main cultural and commercial center. The Constitution of France establishes the country as secular and democratic, with its sovereignty derived from the people.

During the Iron Age, what is now France was inhabited by the Gauls, a Celtic people. The Gauls were conquered by the Roman Empire in 51 BC, which held Gaul until 486. The Gallo-Romans faced raids and migration from the Germanic Franks, who dominated the region for hundreds of years, eventually creating the medieval Kingdom of France. France has been a major power in Europe since the Late Middle Ages, with its victory in the Hundred Years' War (1337 to 1453) strengthening French state-building and paving the way for a future centralized absolute monarchy. During the Renaissance, France experienced a vast cultural development and established the first steps of a worldwide colonial empire. The 16th century was dominated by Religious Civil Wars primarily fought between Catholics and Protestants (Huguenots).

The pédérastique history of the France is rich and very old, since it begins since antiquity with Celtic Gaul, the Greek cities such as Marseille, then integration into the Roman Empire.

In the middle ages the love of boys is more discreet, before re-emerge in the Renaissance under the Italian influence. The Libertines of the 17th century still brave the suppression, and the Enlightenment will be more tolerant until the Revolution of 1789.

"pompier" said art of the 19th century will be largely a hymn to the Bachelor beauty and 20th century will flourish a literary and militant bloom exceptional. From the 1980s, however, the moralistic hegemony of the United States throughout the world will cause a return of the anti-pedophile Puritanism.

It is worth mentioning the important role of colonization, which in this area also created lasting links between the France and several countries of the Maghreb, sub-Saharan Africa, and the far East.