French Renaissance
Posted June 3, 2008
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Are there any famous inventions of the French Renaissance?
I know about printing. Is there anything else?
There are such thing as "French Renaissance." And the printing was invented in China, not Europe. What Guttenburg is credited with the invention (by Westerners) is the movable type printing. And he was German, not French. So how can this credit to the French?
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