Curious why you think French soldiers are surrender monkeys. Was it their performance in Mexico? Over a century in North Africa? At the battle of Yorktown where essentially it was the French military fighting the British? Was the their performance in World War I, with Verdun being particularly noteworthy? Was it their heroic and desperate fight at Dien Ben Phu?
Was it their fight in World War II where they lost more casualties in six weeks than we did in the whole Vietnam war before they were out classed by the modernized German military?
We never stop hearing about poppies, Flanders field etc. France came close to doubling the British dead in World War II. And funny how we never hear about tea drinking surrender monkeys were the British army fled the battlefield in World War II at Dunkirk. Their runaway is cast as a heroic thing. Or how about Singapore, or a new chapter of military history was written when an army surrendered to an attack and forced 1/3 of its size.
A lot of the bull crap people put out about the French being cowards is British propaganda, and American leaders upset that the French will not rubberstamp everything we tell them to do. I am second to none of my scored for the French government. But you will never hear a professional talk crap about the French army
Scorn for the French government
France surrendered to Hitler early in WW2.