Viva
Viva la france.
Did anyone ever really say that, or was it from les mis or something? If you know, don't know, or just want to make something up, please comment. We can guess whether it's true or not.
The US French embassy's site is pretty lame on the issue of Bastille Day. This is just as well since I think a more detailed description would elucidate too many parallels in terms of trends in world political systems deserving of large scale public outrage. Even a slightly a more thorough description makes that clear. How direct are the parallels? It depends I guess. I think here in the US at least an argument could be made that we have a church class (party/estate), at least in the cracker barrel areas.
On a slightly different note, I just browsed a story about "best places to live 2006". I'm wondering if someone will ever do a piece on best places to live if you aren't a breeder who can afford overpriced housing or a bible thumped cracker. I sure would like that.
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I reckon the French troops shouted it before they ran away from the English at Argincort.
Or it could of been Napolean before Wellington put his boot up his backside at Waterloo.
Chuckle snort....
Yep. Coulda been. Funny how an apparently noble revolution ended up launching such wretched imperialism.
It was a rallying cry for the Free French, the maquis, and the resistence members in Paris, who for years after their traitor government signed a "peace" with Nazi Germany, continued to fight.
I'll mock the French as cowards at every opportunity -- there's a saying that the last great French General was four feet tall (or something like that) -- but the truth is they can be some determined fighters when given the opportunity to prove themselves.
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