This particular evidence talks about the fact that the French victors preferred to associate with the British vanquished because British and French officers were alter all gentlemen. And that is why the English and the French will feel close when you compare them to another nationality outside Europe. The only time a foreigner in France will tell you what he or she really thinks of France or the French is when you ask them to be honest with you.

When it comes to the English, not enough credit is given them because they tend to be self critical so others think let's be critical of them as well. I think it's obvious why the English don't like us... They're jealous because we are so much more handsome , better looking, better in bed, smarter, our food is better and Paris is more popular than London!Wahoo, it's so funny, I didn't think that English people hate French people that much! Personally, I think that the both countries just carried what happened many years before. But, hey, it's just past! Personally, I'm very offend about what you're saying about French people because it seems like you just consider rude french. Obviously, there are rude french, like there are rude english, rude germans, rude japanese! What a stupid conflict, english aren't coolest just because they're English; just think about what you say : Stereotyping.

Is it true that France invented the hot air balloon? And is it really illegal to kiss on train platforms? Find out with these 30 fun facts about France. From this point of view: thanks, Germany! From 1870 they became "our" archenemy (previously they were largely ignored). They took the place of the English, our old rivals for centuries. I’ve been putting quizzes together as a quiz master since 2018 and go to my local pub quiz every week.Today as many as 30 percent of French voters would agree with Jean-Marie Le Pen that foreign-born Muslims should be expelled from France. True France is a provocative history of the prototype of this contemporary "France for the French" movement - the conservative, static, intolerant understanding of French identity that became a powerful tool in national politics during the first half of the twentieth century. Drawing on the insights of anthropological and cultural theory and on extensive archival research, Herman Lebovics shows how, among politicians and thinkers from both the right and the left, the glorification of True France masked the cultural project of eliminating diversity. He skillfully interweaves the biographies of representative figures in debates about "True France" from the time of the Dreyfus affair to the end of the Vichy regime: the anthropologist and politician Louis Marin, the colonial hero Marshal Lyautey, the radical Vietnamese student Nguyen Van Tao, Paul Rivet, the Socialist director of the Musee de l'Homme, Andre Breton, and the folklorist Georges-Henri Riviere. Lebovics offers fresh accounts of such landmarks in the growth of True France as the founding of French anthropology, the formulation of French cultural policy in the colonies, the manipulation of imagery at the Paris International Colonial Exposition of 1931, attempts by the Left to include workers in the culture of True France, and the institutionalization of the myth of French identity under the Petain regime. Historians of modern Europe, intellectual and cultural historians, anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, ethnographers, and others interested in the politics of cultural identity and pluralism today will want to read True France However, Band of Brothers' book reveals that Cobb actually did end up putting the wounded German soldier out of his misery. Staff Sergeant Robert Marsh and Private David Webster tried to end the dying man's life by throwing grenades at him, but couldn't get them close enough. What Band of Brothers' series leaves out is that " Cobb decided he could take it no more. He grabbed a grenade, went to the river bank, heaved it over, and finally killed the German." For Elkin, "Spiral has a very grand Paris kind of vision, in the sense that it continues into the banlieues [suburbs] – the posh banlieues and the not-posh banlieues – which is something really missing not just from Emily in Paris but also more generally from foreign representations of the city. Emily in Paris should walk onto the set of Engrenages – that would be a show I'd watch!" What gets me about my own people the French is that the people they criticize the most are the people who helped them the most like Americans, Australians, Canadians, English and New Zealanders. Who can afford to bite the hand that feeds them? I don't think they hate us, it's just some kind of rivalry: in the XX° century we fought alongside for the 2 great wars.