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Frances

proper noun

  1. female given name
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈfɹænsɪz/ / /ˈfɹɑːnsɪz/

name

  1. plural of France

    The malaise of French politics has commonly been interpreted as a product of a deep-seated conflict between the ‘two Frances’.

    Although scholars have offered different chronologies and causalities for the move toward modernity, most have resolved the paradox of the two Frances by placing them in sequence: "diverse France gave way over time as modern centralized France gathered force."