Both are European states, but political, economically, and socially, they could not be any more different. ... In the political sector of Europe, you had various forms of government. ... Only a strong monarch could seem capable of doing so. ... France basically had the same form and ideas, except that it was all in the way the monarchs wanted to rule the country. ... They eventually succumbed to the greatest military power in the world, England. ...

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