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Until 1795 France had the largest population in Europe, even larger than Russia. However only a hundred years the population only increased by a very small amount. The population of other countries exploded. At first I though it had to do with population density... but after further analysis that really doesn't make sense France was more sparsely populated then the other major powers. Why did this happen?