Ils ne passeront pas! -- Marshall Petain at Verdun
Not to kill a joke, but...
The French fought bravely in WWI. They didn't surrender, nor appease or even collaborate with their enemy in WWI.
Of course, given the weapons and leadership their military brass gave them, and the proximity of the front lines to Paris, they had little choice.
You may now resume making French jokes.
The French actually fought that one very hard. Those were not the French of 1940, or today.
Unfortunately, they also lost more than a million killed and these poor guys in the pics may have been some of them. French military leaders were as bad as the Brits and a whole generation was virtually wiped out through major stupidity and blunders such as charging against massed German machine guns. American soldiers did the same thing until they learned how to fight back against the Huns. My great uncle was killed by a German artillery shell in 1918 and the family mourned him for decades.