Posted on 07/16/2016 1:26:03 PM PDT by george76
You are absolutely correct, YES they did save us. Amiral de Grasse blockaded the Chesapeake to close off the escape of Cornwallis’s troops. There were more Frenchmen at Yorktown than Americans. LaFayette was offered the sword of surrender, but deferred to Washington whom he dearly loved. (His son was named George Washington LaFayette.) The French have always been with us. Can’t say the same for the Brits.
You guys? I am an American. I have frequented Armoriers all over France. Some types of guns require registration but others don’t. I have all I need on both sides of the Atlantic.
Well I would have followed it with a /s, but the truth is that I didn’t know.
I am among the number of people on this thread who thought that the French were disarmed.
I had put a bunch of silly stuff in my posts, I was being sort of tongue and cheek in them, but that part where I said guns are illegal in France I thought was true.
So you did educate me, I looked up french guns laws, and I learned something.
And what I learned makes me happy. I like it when people can defend themselves. That is the right thing. I don’t want to see a bunch of defenseless people.
But I was also having fun making my stupid posts, so darn!
I mean *tongue in cheek*, dang it!
I can’t stop with stupid today, gonna go walk my dog!
Lone wolf!
Thank you! I LOVE it when I can spread a little truth and people can learn something they didn’t know before. I appreciate you letting me know.
Keep your powder dry. Best wishes.
Just stick an /s after something to signify “sarcasm.” I love wry humor as many do. We really should laugh more.
#Lone Wolf Army. Isn’t it? Couldn’t it be?
Naked sarcasm is much more fun.
Forget the /s
It had an automatic transmission also. Those should only be available on military vehicles.
Kingersheim.
The grandparents were in school when the Nazi’s crossed the rhine. The Germans always wanted the land to the Voges Mountains and the French wanted to the Rhine. The Nazis made them speak German in school and the parents insisted on french at home. The lids spoke a hybrid called Alsacienne, when the grandparents spoke. They said, only their generation spoke it.
Much the same in Lorraine. After the Treaty of Frankfort when Alsace and part of Lorraine was ceded to Germany due to the French defeat in the war of 1871, the Germans began moving Germans into Lorraine and the French were not allowed to speak French in public, schools, meetings, etc. For over 40 years this Germanization of Northeast Lorraine continued until the end of the First World War. I knew someone who was born French, then became German, then French, then German, and finally French again just before she died.
Alsace is beautiful country, as is in fact all of France. There is always something different to see.
Had some great wines when I was in Alsace.
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I thought the cuisine was close to the US. They had typical french sauces, mushroom etc, but beef and chicken and less fish than on the south coast.
We stayed with mother and daughter in apartment when we first went to paris. There was an alsacienne food market and one night mom made us a home cooked dinner in paris.
On one trip they took us into the hills to a winery with a great restaurant. Another a 250 year old place.
In the mountains there was a sign on the wall. Best deserts in France awarded 2 years in a row. My wife asked, which one. All of them of course!
Our “daughter” was married in Mulhous at a villa with a park around it. Built circa 1900 by an Italian. During world war II, the resistance was using a tunnel from the villa into the town and killing germans in the middle of the night.
The germans got word and burned the villa and killed the owner, but the walls were mostly cement and stone. After the war, the Italian family didn’t want to come to France, so they gave it to the city for a park.
We had a reception outside, wine and cheese etc. Then there were 3 different buffets (one switched out twice). all told 15 hour wedding and reception.
We helped decorate the day before and the day after family and close friends went back and had all the left overs for dinner outside in the park.
I was impressed how many of the kids grew up and stayed in the area. Some turned down jobs in paris and Marseilles.
Our friends work in Basel SW because they got more hours and higher pay. Our “daughter’ hired by chinese import company because she can speak English and answer the phone.
Sounds like you had a wonderful time. I find it amazing how many receptions and dinners can go on for hours and hours with no loss of enjoyment. Dinners with course after course and wine after wine with nobody getting tipsy are a marvel.
The “old stones” fascinate me. So many chateaux and each so different with its tales of wartime, some going back to the middle ages.
I was born in WV and lived mostly in CA. Been in 49 states and 30 o so countries. In Cal if your home or building is 90 years old they conifer it “historical.” We have houses in Oceanside with plaques on the front “built in 1922.” In Europe they laugh if you consider 90 years “historical.”
I remember stpping out of my apartment in Paris and looking up at the building across the street. There was a plaque on it that said 1634. I remember staring at it and thinking, “That’s the year Maryland was founded.” I’m a Marylander and extensively traveled as well. Countrywise .am a tiny bit behind you in the high twentiesi.
My first wife wanted to visit her 5 brothers and 4 sisters all the time. Went to Minneapolis 6 times. Nice family. Nice place, but never went to east coast or europe or anywhere. Told me she dreamed she would die on water, so no cruises. Two weeks after we separated, my boss saw her in a scuba shopper preparing to go to Nicaraugua to scuba dive.
Dated and married women who like to travel. I highly recommend Iguazu Falls in Brazil/Argentina. You can go in and out of Rio if you want. We cruised Buenos Aires to Valparaiso Chile, good cruise around the cape.
Happy travels!
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