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Entry: Learning to Love the French Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/learning_to_love_the_french#12486 Post contents: • Defining French heritage in terms exclusive to catholicism while ignoring the importance of the protestant Huguenots is something akin to defining air with out hydrogen. • Dienbienphu had little to do with American air support and much to do with strategic military incompetence on the part of the armed forces. • "One of the problems facing the Kings of France, Spain, and Portugal in the 17th and 18th centuries was that, unlike the British Isles, their countries were very pleasant to live in." In fact it was during the umpleasantness of the Catholic persecution of French Calvanists that my ancestors fought for the English and secured land in Virginia for their efforts — two generations before the Royal Proclamation of 1763. etc... Sent at: 2008 11 23