Vive la France!

[Dennis Perrin]

> French-Bashing Rolls Off France's Back
>
> PARIS (Reuters) - It's the diplomatic equivalent of water rolling off a
> duck's back. Bashing the French does not beat them down -- au contraire,
it
> only makes them more convinced they must be right.
>
> The air has been thick with insult these days, both over the Atlantic and
> across the Channel, as the United States and Britain pile pressure and
scorn
> on their reluctant ally to support an attack against Iraq.
>
> ``Cheese-eating surrender monkeys,'' ``the rat that roared,'' ``the
petulant
> prima donna of realpolitik'' -- the epithets flung at France by the U.S.
and
> British media can easily make a reader forget they're talking about
> America's oldest ally.

"They fight with their feet,
and fuck with their face.
The French, they are
a funny race."

The two French national slogans:

"It is better to live on your knees than die on your feet."

"Please do not hit me in the face."


>From "Letters From France" by Michael O'Donoghue (unpublished, save for an
excerpt in Rolling Stone).

DP