[bigcheese]

"It was Julius Caesar who gave the name of Gaul to the territories he had conquered, drawing an arbitrary boundary between France and Germany. In their quest for glory, the Romans depicted their enemies as warlike, courageous and uncontrollable, an image that retains its force in France today. Yet many, according to M Goudineau, had done deals with Caesar and put up little or no fight."

In a related development, the eminent scholar BigCheese also noted: "D*mn! The more things change, the more things stay the same"

[bigcheese]

Is there a French-are-dumb*sses index list? If there is, I'd like to be added to it, please!

[hinckley buzzard]

omnes gallia in tres partes divisa est

[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.