Ah yes, the French National Razor. Madame Guillotine gives the closest shaves and haircuts with the greatest of speed.
Feel sorry for them no, never!
In college one of the puns that my history Professor used to utter was that it had just been announced by His Holiness Emperor Charles De Gaulle that France and the US had just signed a new mutual defense treaty; this was learned only moments before it was learned that the German Army was 5 miles outside of Paris and driving hard!