[AnAmericanMother]

The pre-WWI French soldiers - the "poilus" - "hairy guys" - were pound for pound the bravest soldiers in Europe.

They were wiped out almost to a man in the big battles. The cowards, the unfit, and the few survivors bred the next generation. That's the problem.

[RitchieAprile]

also, they had losses in 1940 as well.

360,000 dead or wounded,
1,900,000 captured