The Gallic game of seduction, terrible TV and three-course lunches for the workers
By Jon Henley
History / Charlemagne, hundred years war, ancien régime, renaissance, Reformation, the Sun King. A revolution that changed the history not just of France, but the world. A republic (briefly) until Napoleon Bonaparte made it an empire; wars all over the shop. Another republic, a second empire, a third republic, devastation in the first world war, occupation in the second. Charles de Gaulle, the Fifth Republic, bye bye Algeria, a leader among European nations. Cheese-eating surrender monkeys. What more is there to say?...[continued]
