Britannia and the British Empire what Marianne is to France or perhaps what Columbia is to the United States. Britannia became a very potent and more common figure in times of war, and represented British liberties and democracy. During the 1990s the term "Cool Britannia" (drawn from a humorous version by the Bonzo Dog Band of the song "Rule Britannia", with words by James Thomson [1700–1748], which is often used as an unofficial national anthem), was used to describe the contemporary United Kingdom. The phrase referred to the fashionable scenes of the era, with a new generation of pop groups and
Name of France the Gauls ("Primat des Gaules"). Gaul is in the plural in the title, reflecting the three Gallic entities identified by the Romans ("Celtica", "Belgica", and "Aquitania"). The adjective "gaulois" (Gallic) is still sometimes used when a French person wants to stress some idiosyncrasies of the French people entrenched in history, such as "nos ancêtres les Gaulois" ("our ancestors the Gauls"), a phrase sometimes used in French when one wants to assert his own identity. During the Third Republic, the authorities often referred to "notre vieille nation gauloise" ("our old Gallic nation"), a case in which the adjective "gaulois" is used