Gallic appearance

[Artorius1960]

no, they wouldn't, the french are mostly franks, or other gemanic amalgamations

I've wondered about how much the Franks and other Germanic peoples affected the population in Gaul. I tend to think of the Frankish domination of Gaul much like the Norman domination of England. The English remained English in language, culture, and race. In time, the Normans became less Norman and more English because there were so few of them in relation to the population of pre-Conquest Britain.

The Angles, Saxons, Jutes (and whoever else came that way) came on slowly and surely and in ever-increasing numbers and eventually pushed the Britons into the fringes like Wales/Cymru, Cornwall, and Strathclyde. The culture, language, race of the island became Germanic.

I don't think the Franks came into Gaul in sufficiently large numbers to dominate the pre-existing population. They also took control very rapidly and spread out across the lanscape thinly--much like the Normans in England. The language of modern France is not Germanic, as it would be if the Franks had culturally and racially dominated the land. Instead, they seem to have come as overlords of a population that was still very Romano-Gallic and eventually, like the Normans in England, melded into the general population.