"from my history i remember the germans also had huge losses in WW I"
I didn't contend otherwise. I was just disputing the notion that the French are an inherently cowardly people. You don't sustain the horrific losses they sustained in WW I (not to mention the Napoleanic years) without having some backbone in your genetic makeup.
I agree that that backbone is increasingly hard to locate these days, but I suspect it's somewhere in the Gallic gene pool.
good point. i actually think the French were (are?) very good soldiers. they have a good reputation with the older Germans, who generally were picky as to whom they considered good soldiers.