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1000 Years of Annoying the French

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Luckily I have a French Canadian husband so he can do my speaking for me as I tend to freeze up when spoken to in French. Mary Queen of Scots passing was treated with indifference by the Scots (a people she had little regard for) and was designed to annoy - yes you've guessed - the French.

I mean, like half the countries in the world right now have an independence day to celebrate their independence from the British. I enjoy reading historical works and this one has an abundance of information, as well as an eye and ear for the humor in the characters and their actions. Funny, but a strange concept and written in such a laid back way that I wasn't sure if I could trust the facts/history.I take exception more to their politics and the massive tonne of French fries that they seemingly carry about their shoulders should anyone even suggest that another country has it better than they do - be more like the Germans, the Italians or the Spanish or dare I say it, like us - after all, there's a big proportion of les Anglais that probably originate from France anyway. I enjoyed it and laughed out loud fairly frequently, but it's definitely more of a comedy routine than a true historical resource. This book starts with the events leading up to the Battle of Hastings, where the Duke of Normandy (which is in France) had a very decisive victory against the British. I could go on stating the other way that the Guernsey resistance did a terrible job on blowing up railways (do they have a railway there? Filled with a lot of facts that I didn't really know about - although a lot of the De Gaulle stuff I did and it turns out, he was not a very likeable man of whom even a number of his own countrymen think the same.

Like what the real Richard the Lionheart and his brother John were like, not just how they are depicted in the countless Robin Hood adaptations.O, delikatnie rzecz ujmując, skomplikowanych stosunkach pomiędzy dwoma wielkimi narodami, z humorem (często wyjątkowo czarnym! This is done on purpose, the humoristic tone is added to make the story a bit less dry and more entertaining. The chapters come with delightful sub-headings, such as "In India and Tahiti: France Gets Lost In Paradise: A selection of historical Frenchmen lose India, fail to notice Australia and give sexually transmitted diseases to Pacific islanders" and "How Britain Killed Off the Last French Royals: And the Victorians said, 'It was an accident, honest. I found the bits about the channel tunnel and entering the EU particularly interesting, because those are bits that I really knew very little about and -- given Brexit -- are quite timely. He recounts trips to Crecy and Azincourt (not Agincourt which is hundreds of miles away from the true battle site - with the z) and paints a less than glowing picture of Joan of Arc, religious zealot and manipulative egomaniac.

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