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French told to shrug off Gallic myth
The Times (U.K.) ^
| 04/01/2002
| Adam Sage
Posted on 03/31/2002 3:17:14 PM PST by Pokey78
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posted on
03/31/2002 3:17:14 PM PST
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Pokey78
To: Pokey78
Yet many, according to M Goudineau, had done deals with Caesar and put up little or no fight. LOL!!! Would that be those in and around Vichy? Wonder if Caesar's Conquests talks about the natural inclination of the French to give up.
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posted on
03/31/2002 3:21:51 PM PST
by
LBGA
To: Pokey78
"It was Julius Caesar who gave the name of Gaul to the territories he had conquered, drawing an arbitrary boundary between France and Germany. In their quest for glory, the Romans depicted their enemies as warlike, courageous and uncontrollable, an image that retains its force in France today.
Yet many, according to M Goudineau, had done deals with Caesar and put up little or no fight."In a related development, the eminent scholar BigCheese also noted: "D*mn! The more things change, the more things stay the same"
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posted on
03/31/2002 3:22:36 PM PST
by
bigcheese
To: Pokey78
Gaul-Lump
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posted on
03/31/2002 3:23:38 PM PST
by
Spirited
To: bigcheese
Is there a French-are-dumb*sses index list? If there is, I'd like to be added to it, please!
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posted on
03/31/2002 3:24:44 PM PST
by
bigcheese
To: Pokey78
Yet many, according to M Goudineau, had done deals with Caesar and put up little or no fight. Yep, that sure sounds like the French that we've come to know and love!
To: bigcheese
Is there a French-are-dumb*sses index list? That or a *Euro-trash bump list would be good to have.
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Well, my sis is Swiss (say that a hundred times) and I cannot be too hard on *all* europeans. Then again, the Swiss are not quite like the rest of the continent.
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posted on
03/31/2002 3:30:37 PM PST
by
bigcheese
To: Pokey78
. M Goudineau claims that the bird is not the Gallic emblem that France believes it to be. In fact, it was an insult Sacre bleu, mon ami, you are nothing but a soiled rooster!
To: Pokey78
To: Pokey78
What the hell..........I'll cut 'em some slack. They may have engaged in backsliding since, but right after 9/11 the French united in backing our country. I may have my gripes with them, but I'll
never forget that show of support and solidarity.
God bless 'em.
To: Pokey78
Next, Christian Goudineau will be demanding reparations for the embarrassment being called Gallic has wrought...so he will be suing Italy...or Rome, Georgia, USA.
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posted on
03/31/2002 3:51:46 PM PST
by
TomGuy
To: bigcheese
omnes gallia in tres partes divisa est
To: Pokey78;all
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posted on
03/31/2002 3:56:08 PM PST
by
mdittmar
To: TomGuy
Goudineau might just be a Commie looking to take his own country, people, and culture down a peg. As for the French in WWII.... well, losing a war makes a country re-examine it's doctrines more closely then winning one does, right?
To: Pokey78
THE French identity is based on an historical nonsense, according to an academic who says that the Gauls were a fiction invented by the Romans and exploited by French revolutionaries after 1789. Strange, this man clearly never saw the Asterix!
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03/31/2002 3:57:29 PM PST
by
A. Pole
To: Pokey78
...but remained popular because his roots were seen to be deep in the Gallic myth: a healthy appetite for food, alcohol and women. Whatever the history, it's a mistake to say these characteristics are myth. If they weren't true 2000 years ago, there sure are now, and they are the principle redeeming characteristics of the French.
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posted on
03/31/2002 3:58:29 PM PST
by
mlo
To: Pokey78
Good and interesting post. Thank you. Only the French would feel good about in being enslaved and murdered by the Romans.
To: TEXASPROUD; hinckley buzzard
Gallii numquam sunt omnius divisum in pars tres. How's that?
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posted on
03/31/2002 4:13:04 PM PST
by
cornelis
To: hinckley buzzard
uh.... yeah. and stuff.
I recognize the 'tres', which is a partial title of maybe the only other french export then french fries that is worth a d*mn.(/sarcasm)
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