An Eskimo Boy And Injustice In Old New York

Brad De Long delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU
Fri Mar 17 12:13:48 PST 2000



>Actually, "les allemands" IS derived from German. It's a gaulified
>version of "Alle Maenner," all men, which I believe was the name for
>a political coalition of some sort in what is now southeast Germany.

I thought it came from the "Allemanni," who were a German tribe who had some... friction... with the Franks back when both tribes lived on the right bank of the Rhine?

Brad



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