That doesn't apply to all Frenchmen who fought in the War of Independence. Col. Henry de Rouvroy, Comte Saint-Simon, was the founder of French Socialism.
http://cepa.newschool.edu/~het/profiles/saintsimon.htm
http://cepa.newschool.edu/~het/profiles/saintsimon.htm
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