[Erasmus]

Now, that is interesting. Enlisting a National Icon to arouse patriotic ardor to ally with the British against the Hun.

Of course, said Icon found her place in history fighting the British.

[Erasmus]

Or maybe that's supposed to be the Lady of the Lake, that moistened wench.

[AngloSaxonChristian]

'Now, that is interesting. Enlisting a National Icon to arouse patriotic ardor to ally with the British against the Hun.
Of course, said Icon found her place in history fighting the British.'

Well, it's the only military icon france has ever had so they didn't have much of a choice!

Perhaps the subtext of the ad was: 'it took 100 years to find someone french with a backbone last time, can we try harder this time. . . .' :D

[Polybius]

Now, that is interesting. Enlisting a National Icon to arouse patriotic ardor to ally with the British against the Hun. Of course, said Icon found her place in history fighting the British.

Well, actually, it was the British who allied with their traditional enemy France against one of France's many traditional enemies and Britain's traditional ally, the Germans.

The World would have been a lot better off if the Brits and the Germans had been able to find an amicable way to decide that the Royal Navy and not the German Imperial Navy would Rule the Waves in the early 20th Century and if, in August of 1914, the Germans had defeated France for the third time since June of 1815.