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Those 2 things are enough to enrage US right wingers, people who are "quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand" [Rush - Moving Pictures], and whose ideology is formed by a few slogans they hear on Faux "News". Now, on to the subject of alleged French "cowardice". As you correctly pointed out, France has a long and impressive military history, from Vercingetorix to Charlemagne to Napoleon to Foch. France fought heroically, and suffered horrendous losses as recently as WWI.

What happened after WWI is interesting. The hundreds of thousands of dead and maimed French soldiers caused a shell-shock, or "post traumatic stress disorder" to use watered-down current name, on a national scale.

It appears that when Germans invaded in , the majority of the French did not want to go through the WWI suffering and losses again. The surprise of German panzer divisions invading Belgium and Holland to circumvent the Maginot Line added to the overall effect. While France did fight a little in , it was far less it should and could have, considering its resources. It also must be added that not all the French were happy with the quick surrender. Thanks to his courage, France ended the war along the Russia, US and Britain in the camp of the victors, not alongside the defeated Germany and Japan.

Last edited by skiffrace; at PM.. The Postman. You know I find it odd that many Americans dislike the French so, for aside from some personal prejudice against the French, France have always been the allies of the United States, from the Revolutionary War, throughout the World Wars. More than forty allied divisions were in the pipeline, but they could not all be brought to the front through the Normandy logistic bottleneck.

Moreover, the U. Government had gone to considerable expense to train and equip French divisions in North Africa, and the only practical way to get them quickly into battle was through southern France. This French corps fell under the U.

Later, the French forces would grow to army size and de Lattre would take command of the First French Army which, in turn, would be subordinated to the U. The French units were a remarkable combination of ethnic French formations put together from former Vichy troops and French soldiers who had escaped France and joined the Free French, and colonial troops from North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, and even Polynesia. The capture of the ports gave the Allies a solid logistical base for driving northward.

But no. The turkey-cocking arrogance of the typical French male, the absolute conviction that he sits at the top of the human food chain, was completely unaffected by what had happened on the train. There seemed to be no shame, no sense of national humiliation.

Just the standard Gallic shoulder shrug. I suppose I should know by now that the vanity of the French is unassailable. But, of course, there was no throng. A mime is also essential. He will always be based on Marcel Marceau and pretending to be stuck in a box.

See also: Le Film Artistique. And if a French intellectual is depicted, he will always be a caricature of Jean-Paul Sartre and ponder over existential questions. They will enjoy eating baguettes, croissants, tarts, cheese, and drink wine. Sometimes they are also depicted as having an eccentric taste: eating snails escargots and frog legs.

See also French Cuisine Is Haughty. Gay Paree: Paris equals France in popular culture, no other locations. The monument will also be used for the big climax of the story. Another stock location in Paris is the Louvre, so that the characters can go and watch the Mona Lisa.