Happy Bastille Day!

[gridlore]

And if anyone wants to use the "cheese eating surrender monkeys" line here, I would remind them that after the fall of France (due to an over-reliance on the Maginot Line, not any failing of the French Army) a huge number of French citizens continued to resist. The passed intelligence to the Allies, sabotaged rail lines, aided downed Allied aviators, and risked torture and death in the face of overwhelming odds in order to fight the hated Boche. Thousands of Maquis and other Resistance fighters did die, and thousands more Free French Forces paid the ultimate price to liberate the Motherland.

Viva la France!

Comments

[kengr]

That clip is a classic example of why conquerors shouldn't rub things in the conquered's faces.

[twfarlan.livejournal.com]

As I understand my family history, there is an ancestor on my father's side who is on the list of the Domesday Book, a Norman who served William the Conqueror and was rewarded with land in the south of Britain. Those in the United Kingdom may enjoy their little jape about "cheese eating surrender monkeys" so quickly copied from a cartoon Scotsman. They would do well to remember that their ancestors had to learn many languages, just to keep up with who was invading them that season... especially and most notably French.

[biomekanic.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was my family's introduction into Britain as well.


I like the War Nerd's take on the French: brave, suicidally so sometimes, which doesn't always help win wars.