[TheDandyMan]

The British have spent their history alternately smacking and more recently rescuing the French. This is payback I guess.

On the eve of Paris falling Churchill proposed that France and the UK unite as one nation (with Britain holding the reins it goes without saying). I doubt the French have forgotten that insult.

[az_gila]

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On the eve of Paris falling Churchill proposed that France and the UK unite as one nation (with Britain holding the reins it goes without saying). I doubt the French have forgotten that insult.

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And de Gaulle had to die before the french would allow the UK to join the Common Market.