Why does the French say Allemagne for the county of Deutschland? Does it have re

Question: Why does the French say Allemagne for the county of Deutschland!? Does it have references to Charlemagne!?
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No!. It refers to a group of people who lived in that region!. The Alemanni or something!.

hold on lemme find the link of the website where i learned this

edit: here's one of them
http://www!.straightdope!.com/classics/a2_!.!.!.

edit: and another
http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Names_for_G!.!.!.

*Alemanni was the name of a tribe that lived in the southern part of Germany!. It means "all the men"

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Not only does the phraseless James Dean have the Allemani right, it would be a better question to wonder why we call the Deutsch "German," and the Nederlanders "Dutch!."Www@QuestionHome@Com