Why does the French say Allemagne for the county of Deutschland? Does it have references to Charlemagne?

Question

Why does the French say Allemagne for the county of Deutschland? Does it have references to Charlemagne?

Answer 1

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."

Answer 2

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"

i hope i helped.  :)