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Entry: Learning to Love the French Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/learning_to_love_the_french#12351 Post contents: Sorry, but the French are trouble and always have been. From Clovis, who never understood the Christianity he converted to, to Joan of Arc, prototype of modern feminism, to their worthless last king who could be neither generous enough to be loved nor ruthless enough to be feared, to the awful Revolution, to the Paris Commune, to their indispensable role in the mortal wounding of Western Civilization in the Great War, the French have been bad news and one has been best advised to stay as far away from them as possible. Or, as the indispensable Edmund Blackadder put it: "I hardly think that a nation that eats snails and would go to bed with the kitchen sink if it put on a tutu is in any position to preach couthness." Nor anything else. Sent at: 2008 11 23