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"thecajuncutthroat":
-"There have been 53 major wars in Europe
France had been a belligerent in 49 of them; UK 43.
In 185 battles that France had fought over the past 800 years, their armies had won 132 times, lost 43 times and drawn only 10.
Giving the French military the best record of any country in Europe".
BBC History
1066: Norman Conquest of England 'It largely removed the native ruling class, replacing it with a foreign, French-speaking monarchy, aristocracy, and clerical hierarchy. This, in turn, brought about a transformation of the English language and the culture of England.'
- "The French soldiers are grand. They are grand. There is no other word to express it".
Arthur Conan Doyle
- "Their business is war, and they do their business".
R. Kipling
- "The Free French had been of inestimable value in the campaign."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
- "The value of French Resistance was equal to 10 to 15 divisions at the time of the landings".
Dwight D. Eisenhower
-"The French held 7 german divisions in Dunkirk. England wouldn't have been able to carry on the war without them".
Winston Churchill
- "The french woman embodies the absolute chic".
Stella Mc Cartney
- "Why are French women so sexy? Ever since 1066, we've been enthralled by the innate superiority of the French female".
Helena Frith Powell
- "I find [the French] a most amiable nation to live with".
Benjamin Franklin
- "The problem with the French is that they have no word for 'entrepreneur' ".
George W. Bush
- "From Nice to Boulogne I was deeply struck with the magnificent order and method and decency and prosperity of France".
Henri James
- "England needs the world, the world needs France".
Rivaroli
- "When Paris sneezes, Europe catches cold".
Metternich
- "America is my country and Paris is my hometown".
Gertrude Stein
-"I have a lot of good moments in England, but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan."
Eric Cantona
- "During the century and a half after the Conquest, there is no English history. The French Kings of England rose to an eminence which was the wonder of all nations".
Thomas Babington Macauley
- "The small groups of Vikings that settled there adopted the language, religion and culture of the French majority. After a generation or two, the Normans were indistinguishable from the French".
Encyclopaedia Britannica
- "Every man has two countries: his own and France".
Thomas Jefferson, the day after the Battle of Yortown
- "France is the most civilized country in the world and doesn't care who knows it".
John Gunther
- "Let a fool hate France".
G.K. Chesterton
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