November 8, 2003
THE FRENCH REVEALED
According to the November 6, 2003 New York Times, a recent poll by the Ipsos polling agency for Galeries Lafayette established that 87% of French men and women believe that lingerie is an important part of life.
How can one take such a nation seriously?
The Horsefeathers’ Anthology of observations about the French by the French:
The French bourgeois doesn’t dislike shit, provided it is served up to him at the right time.—Jean-Paul Sartre
Such is the nature and make-up of the French that they are only good at the start. Then they are worse than devils, but, given time, they’re less than women.—Rabelais
I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.—Charles de Gaulle
Not tonight, Josephine.--Napoleon
You may be onto something, Doctor. Meanwhile, your credentials as a Sans-Culottes are under investigation.
Posted by: Walter Wells on November 9, 2003 02:23 PM