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.

Originally Posted by FORMER_FYRDMAN

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.

You should try a visit to the Waterloo Museum, you would be hard pressed to know the British were there at all.

As above, you're looking at this from a British prospective... the French have a TOTALLY different outlook on Napolean and his various exploits.

Most of the population love France... sick fcuks.

Originally Posted by bokkatankie

You should try a visit to the Waterloo Museum, you would be hard pressed to know the British were there at all.

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.

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.

They should celebrate Agincourt as well.

Originally Posted by sunami

They should celebrate Agincourt as well.

Of course they should. They won that war, after all.

Originally Posted by Sixty

Of course they should. They won that war, after all.

They didn't win. We just stopped caring.

Originally Posted by Bouillabaisse

They didn't win. We just stopped caring.

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.

Bonkers.

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.