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To: The_Harlequin
"French citzins bemoaning how the Nazis are tracking mud up and down the Avenue des Champs-Élysées."

The Nazis were bad, but at least they didn't leave gum wrappers all over the place like the Americans!

(From an 80's British comedy poking fun at the British uppercrust.)

2 posted on 02/15/2021 4:34:23 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not my current tagline.)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

“French citizens bemoaning how the Nazis are tracking mud up and down the Avenue des Champs-Élysées.”


The French did make a point of washing the streets after the German’s triumphal march in Paris in 1871 after the Franco-Prussian War.


15 posted on 02/15/2021 4:59:01 PM PST by hanamizu
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