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21-01-2012, 11:47 #1
French to commemorate national humiliation
France plans Napoleonland - Telegraph
And apparently Trafalgar and Waterloo will play a major part. Surely not even the French can spin this into a positive.
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21-01-2012, 12:07 #2Senior Member

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21-01-2012, 12:41 #4
I thought the Belgian who said that most of the visitors were French so they gave them what they wanted, took their money and sent them home happy captured it quite well. I just don't see that as possible on a large scale like this. Presumably this venture will require foreign tourists to support it and there will be much sniggering thereby. It might also not be the best time to remind the world of French behaviour in Portugal and Spain.
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21-01-2012, 13:15 #5
There must be something n the French psyche that makes them want to be dominated. Democracy has never really had a strong hold on them and the extremes of politics seem to hold fascination for them. I can see Le Parc Napoleon being very popular and successful as the French hoards flock to bask in their brief moment of glory without reflecting on the twin ironies of his replacing a hated monarchy with an imperial crown and that he lost.
Brigadier Bill Aldridge, commander of British forces in the South Atlantic, responded by saying: ‘I am not expecting to hand the islands over to anybody and therefore put us in a position to have to retake the islands.’
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21-01-2012, 13:22 #6
They should celebrate Agincourt as well.
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Bitterness is no excuse for an inaccurate response.
You see, that's the hypocrisy you lot continually display. The French shouldn't celebrate Jena, Austerlitz, Marengo and so on because ultimately, they lost the war.
The English, on the other hand, should celebrate Agincourt, Crecy etc despite the fact they ultimately lost the war.
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21-01-2012, 13:52 #10
I think my tongue was firmly in my cheek on that one. But..
Marengo et al were fought by Napoleon, who ultimately lost. Agincourt and Crecy were fought by people who didn't lose the war - they handed it over to other people who lost it. So we can celebrate Henry V as a winner whilst acknowledging that his successors weren't quite so heroic.
And I also acknowledge that Agincourt was less of a win than a very lucky escape, but a win's a win.Brigadier Bill Aldridge, commander of British forces in the South Atlantic, responded by saying: ‘I am not expecting to hand the islands over to anybody and therefore put us in a position to have to retake the islands.’


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