Why are you guys even bring france and somalia into discussion these guys were literally the culutral heart of europe for several centuries. Everybody basically copied then. Their pouplation in the year 1800 was 30 million while somlaia was probably 1 million. That's a 30 fold gap.
Comparing mansucripts is even more crazy since all their manuscripts are from before 1500 since after 1500 they produced millions of books . Their are 16 thosuand french langauge manuscripts in the national library alone. On top of the millions of legal documents they have .
France was the center of European culture and society yes. The old style of suits with elaborate designs was made in France and spread all throufh eruppe sinve all European Aristocrats copied french culture, the modern suit was also deigned by a Frenchman.
They had the largest population in Europe for centuries also which is how they conquered Europe during Napolean.
French language was official I'm many states in Europe, English nobles used french as it was seen as more civilised than English, which is why English took on so many french words, more than 15% of the language is french.
But I'm Djiboutian so I'll stop the glaze. Anyways, Somalis have achievements of their own that's what I'm fighting for.