French told to shrug off Gallic myth

The Times (U.K.) ^ | 04/01/2002 | Adam Sage

[bigcheese]

Took me a couple of minutes... but then I got it. I guess I was having a French moment.

Speaking of French moments, Last night on my way home, I finally realized why Pepe Le Pew was a French skunk. Duh.

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

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[Enchante]

I’m sorry, this “scholar” must be on something because anything immortalized by Asterix and Obelix is TRUE!

Actually, they didn’t get too far toward the unification of Gaul, did they?

[joseph20]

By contrast, look at how the Germans reacted to the Roman invasion of their land: The battle of Teutoberg Forest in which an army of Germans ferociously butchered three entire Roman legions.

It was a loss of one-quarter of Rome’s European army and it’s effects are still felt today: The Romans never penetrated East of the Rhine and so the spread of their cultural influence was severely dampened in that area.

[Drammach]

The French fought a great many wars (probably hundreds) over the last thousand years or so. Of those wars, they were ignominiously defeated in exactly one. They didn't always win, but they always fought bravely. Not a bad record, overall.

Let's not forget the battle of Tours, and Charles Martel, which gave the expanding Islamic empire a great bloody nose.
We may joke a lot about the french, but the facts of history (as you point out) tell a very different story.

Oh yes, and let's not forget that a great many vikings settled in Saxony, and became part of the genetic mix known as the french.