They lost more men proportionately than anyone else in WWI, and kept at it.
Yes, they did.
They lost about what the Russians did, proportionally, in World War II.
Ils ne paseront pas!
And they did not pass.
But look how far, how fast a great nation can fall due to nothing more than the change of mind of some people.
Ozymandius.
Yes, and that usually happens when the war is taking place in your own back yard. I'm sorry that my joke has offended so many... Frankly, I find it interesting that some have taken my joke as a serious statement. It had to have been known that when the article stated that the French Army was the only one using color photography that someone was going to make a joke of some sort.
I take absolutely nothing away from the French line soldiers that fought in WWI... I will go that one better and say had they better leadership and equipment (as was mentioned in an earlier post, with which I agreed), they might not have had to have the assistance of other nations.