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Entry: Learning to Love the French Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/learning_to_love_the_french#12331 Post contents: An enjoyable piece....the Arcadian Abuse by Britain, with New England's covetous benediction is one of the more sordid tidbits of American History but it did create the Creole culture and so the good comes with the bad, true to form. I think though that perhaps France should thank the U.S. for their equivocation at Dienbienphu because it laid the groundwork for a French handoff to the U.S. so we could discover what fatal folly it is to fight people like Uncle Ho in mountainous jungles.....particularly when we knew Uncle Ho to recite tidbits from the American Revolution's documents to his guerillas. Everywhere one cares to look, we can find an Amateur Hour Imperial America blundering like a gored Bull in the septic fields originally installed by France and Britain....sometimes Spain and occasionally Germany. This is not to blame others, it simply heaps more abuse on our own feckless government for willfully ignoring the failures of the past. I'm not so sure Quebec, at least rural Quebec is as deracinated as you suggest. Asking for directions...courteously and in francopidgen in any of the small towns between Quebec City and Maine is to be treated to a level of laughing hauteur that is only equalled when an overweight Texan impatiently drawls a demanding question at the proprietor of a non-tourist neighborhood patisserie in Paris. One may receive directions but if followed, one becomes more lost than before, generally resulting in arriving back at the same place for a second dose of derision. Not that this is a bad thing, I generally relish the game. Are you sure you want to claim Fremont? A blowhard of the highest order, bankrolled by wifey's bloviating papa, galloping about the West in search of his own little empire. Napoleon without brains or ability. His purported successes in the West would have been impossible without the better man who assisted him, Kit Carson. Actually, he is a kind of signature example of the caricatured French you aim to dispel. Until the current Bush came long, he was perhaps the reigning idiot of Republican Political History. Still though, one supposes he is Alexander the Great in comparison to the current demigod, Sir Deeciderensis I, Prince Regent of Connetitexabunkport, holder of any bag given him. Sent at: 2008 11 23