[dfwgator]

DeGaulle also caused a big stink when he visited Montréal and said, “Vive le Québec libre !”

[robowombat]

More than a big stink. Under DeGaulle the French Foreign Ministry and the intel agencies funneled a lot of money to the separatists and tried as hard as they could to encourage the Quebec government to declare independence. DeGaulle could not stand the demotion of France to a second or third rate power.

[Phil DiBasquette]

That speech ignited the separatist movement and made the
Québécois think France would reunite with them

Meanwhile 300 years of non-union left their French in a
rustic state

Frenchmen come to visit and laugh at their patois