What's with France

News Observer ^ | March 16 2003 | JAMES ROSEN

[knighthawk]

Europe-list

If people want on or off this list, please let me know.

[Grand Old Partisan]

France will soon no longer be France, making all this history irrelevant. France is becoming a Moslem country, and is not Old Europe but New Algeria.

[xJones]

Hoo boy! This article is wonderful for frog bashing.

The one line that really hacked me off was the idiot that said, "There is no doubt that France and the United States are mirror images of each other," said Jean-Robert Leguey-Feilleux,..." Any adult that keeps a name like that after becoming an adult is a finer example of Frog idiocy and it's no wonder he could make that comment.

[VietVet]

"Bush, the cowboy of the West"

Whoopi-ti-yi-ay, mutton-flockers.

VietVet

[Grampa Dave]

Just $crew the Frogs with buycotts for the rest of this decade. Here is a simple list of products not to buy:

A little list of French companies and their products to avoid for the rest of this decade"

*New additions to the list thanks to Freepers. If you have an addition, Freepmail me with the URL showing French ownership.

Air France
Air Liquide
Airbus
Alcatel - Based in Paris France
Allegra (Allergy Medication) - Produced by Aventis Pharmaceuticals based in Strasbourg, France
Aqualung (Including: Spirotechnique, Technisub, US Divers, and SeaQuest)
AXA Advisors
Bank of the West - Owned by BNP Paribas
Beneteau (boats)
BF Goodrich - Owned by Michelin
BIC (Razors, Pens & Lighters) - Started in 1945 by Marcel Bich. Originally based just outside of Paris. Began trading on the Paris Stock Exchange in 1972. 40.5% Publicly traded. Bich family still owns 33.5%.
Biotherm (Cosmetics)
Black Bush
Bollinger (Champagne)
*Browning Firearms**
Car & Driver Magazine
Cartier
Chanel
Chivas Regal (Scotch)
Christian Dior
Club Med (Vacations) - Owned in part by Paris based CDC (Caisse des Dépôts
et Consignations)
Culligan (owned by Vivendi)
Dannon (Yogurt & Dairy Foods)
DKNY - LVMH acquired 100% of Gabrielle Studio Inc., the privately owned licenser of Donna Karan trademarks back in 2001.
Dom Perignon
Durand Crystal
Elle Magazine
*Emile Henry French Cookware
Essilor Optical Products
Evian
Fina Gas Stations
Fina Oil - Billions invested in Iraqi Oil fields
First Hawaiian Bank
George Magazine
Givenchy
*Guerlain Fragrances
*Grey Goose Vodka
Hennessy
Houghton Mifflin (books)
International Herald Tribune - 181 ave Charles-de-Gaulle - F-92521 Neuilly - FRSource:World Business Council for Sustainable Development '00 [Domain Registration], [Corporate Profile]
Jacobs Creek - Owned by Pernod Ricard since 1989
Jameson (wiskey)
Jerry Springer (talk show)
Krups (coffee and cappaccino makers)
Lancome
Le Creuset (Cookware)
L'Oreal (Health & Beauty Products)
Louis Vuitton
Marie Claire
Martel Cognac
Maybelline
Méphisto (Footwear & Apparel)
Michelin (Tires & Auto Parts) - Their phone number is: (33) 1 45 66 15 53 in France
Mikasa Crystal and Glass (purchased by ARC int'l in 2001)
Moet (Champagne)
Motel 6 - 33, Avenue du Maine- 75755 Paris Cedex 15 France
Motown Records
MP3.com
Mumms (Champagne)
Nissan (Cars) - Majority owned by Renault
Nivea
Normany Butter
Parents Magazine
Peugeot (Automobiles) - Pronounced "Pooh Joe", must be French
Pierre Cardin
Playstation Magazine
ProScan - Owned by Thomson Electronics, France
Publicis Group (Including: Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising)
RCA (televisions & electronics) - Owned by Thomson Electronics, France
Red Magazine
Red Roof Inns - Owned by the Accor group based in France
Renault (Automobiles)
Road & Track Magazine
Roquefort Cheese - All Roquefort cheese is made in France
Rowenta (Toasters, Irons, Coffee makers, etc)
Royal Canadian
Salomon (Skis)
Seagram's Gin
Sierra Software and Computer Games
Smart & Final
Sofitel (Hotels) - Owned by the Accor group based in France
Sparkletts (Water) - Owned by Danone, based in France
Spencer Gifts
Sundance Channel
Taylor Made (Golf)
Technicolor
T-Fal (Kitchenware)
The Glenlivet (Scotch
Total Gas Stations
UbiSoft (Computer Games)
Uniroyal
Uniroyal Tires - Owned by Michelin
Universal Studios (Music, Movies & Theme Parks) - Universal Studios is owned by Vivendi-Universal, headquartered in Paris France
USFilter
Veritas Group
Veuve Clicquot Champagne
Vittel
Vivendi - Vivendi Headquarters, Paris France
Wild Turkey (bourbon)
*Winchester Firearms (US Repeating Arms)**
Woman's Day Magazine
Yoplait - France-based Sodiaal owns a 50% stake of Yoplait
Yves Saint Laurent
Zodiac Inflatable Boats

*New additions to the list thanks to Freepers. If you have an addition, Freepmail me with the URL showing French ownership.

** Sad news but these two companies are owned by the Belgian Company Herstal, (French Light)


PS: Only our left wing maggots are like the French or even mirror images. It may be a DNA thing!

[Welsh Rabbit]

Even while their troops fought together in World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt and Gen. Charles de Gaulle fostered a mutual animosity that helped sour their governments' relations for a quarter-century.

Huh? They sure have a long history of offering nothing militarily, but demanding a controlling interest in the foreign affairs of nations that do.

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

"There is no doubt that France and the United States are mirror images of each other," said Jean-Robert Leguey-Feilleux,..."

I caught that one, too. Strangely, I don't recall the US ever surrendering to the Germans.

[Mamzelle]

re: France is becoming a Moslem country, and is not Old Europe but New Algeria. )))

Pithy, absolutement!!

Nouvelle Algiers...any French major/minors out there to make it grammatical? C'mon, I took only Fr 101.

[Amerigomag]

France is becoming a Moslem country, and is not Old Europe but New Algeria. ))) Pithy, absolutement!!

Are we so different.

We are undergoing a dramatic change in our ethnicity and culture along our southern boarders.

California will so be much more reflective of the Novelle Americana than of old Europe.

[cake_crumb]

Jaques is a pretty busy old goat. Besides constantly thumbing his nose at the US, he's been busy tearing up the Ivory Coast and the Central African Rupublic (coup yesterday), having sessions with Saddam on propaganda tactics and sucking up to Mugabe.

[xJones]

I caught that one, too. Strangely, I don't recall the US ever surrendering to the Germans.

They surrendered as fast as they could, and then the non-Jewish French even prospered. American troops were amazed how well the Parisians were doing. The French Jews were tossed to the Germans of course, except in a few brave exceptions.

France is becoming North Algeria, but the only thing that will matter to them is that the Muslims all speak French.

[drjoe]

But Americans never talk about World War I, when France fought in the mud and the ice and the trenches for four years and lost 1.4 million soldiers


OK We'll talk about the mutinies of the French army on the Western Front, where, if it were not for the Brits the French army would have folded up like a house of cards and the Germans could have resumed their march on Paris

[Grand Old Partisan]

The Quebecers are doing the same thing -- inviting in thousands of French-speaking Algerians.

[Rebelbase]

[Dane]

Channel surfing this morning and on CNN(The Chiraqi News Network, a moniker coined by savedbygrace) the infobabe doing the report from Paris about frog/American relations, basically said that Chirac thinks that "friends" don't let friends go into dangerous situations.

With friends like Chirac who needs enemies. I guess Chirac is fuming that his "friends", the Americans are going to expose his complicity with saddam.

[xJones]

The British and the Russians took horrendous casulties in WWI, but they managed to come back and fight in WWII.

There was something going on the cafe society of Paris during the 1930's. Americans like William L. Shirer commented on it. A blase sort of atmosphere where no one cared about anything, and don't tell them about problems. Sartre's "existentialism" was a later outgrowth of that. It would appear that the French leaders don't want to fight anymore, but they still want to control things. World War I, fought on French territory, shocked the hell out of them and they drew the wrong conclusions.

[NewYorker]

"There is no doubt that France and the United States are mirror images of each other," said Jean-Robert Leguey-Feilleux, a French-born political science professor

More evidence of delusions of grandeur on the part of the French.

[cake_crumb]

"More evidence of delusions of grandeur on the part of the French."

In a way, America and France are mirror images of each other : what ever position the United States takes, France takes the reverse positon. I doubt that's what the professor meant though.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

"There is no doubt that France and the United States are mirror images of each other,"

He is right. A mirror image is the exact reverse of what ever it is reflecting. france is the exact reverse of the US.