I'm not sure if it is important to you now, but anyway, I believe it is in 1967. (not sure when exactly though srry XD
No, it hasn't. At the time of the Roman Empire, it was called 'Gaul' in reference to the Gaulish tribes living there. The rising of the Frankish tribe at the time and after the fall of the roman...
The English channel and the north Atlantic ocean
Paris is in France
France was previously called ''West Francia'' and prior to that ''Gaul''.