[weikel]

Well the Gauls did win a lot of the Wars and Caesar's army was in large part Gallic and German auxillaries( Caesar loved German troops). The French got slaughtered generally in the Hundred Years War but did not surrender and from the time of King Henry IV( the Hugenot king who converted back to Catholicism) to Waterloo the French were relatively successful but after Waterloo they've been horrible.

[3k9pm]

Attribute it to the blind squirrel and the nut theory.

Even a blind squirrel will find a nut occasionally.