The French suffered such catastrophic losses in the First World War. It really was the end of them as a great world power, although they, quote, 'won.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
France cannot be France without greatness.
Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.
France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
You know how arrogant the French are - extraordinary.
Two European nations emerged with credit from the Iraq disaster: France and Germany. Both had the courage to withstand the Bush administration and oppose the U.S.-led invasion.
Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty.
France was always a little scary to me. I had the preconception that France was a bit hoity-toity.
I loved France, although I initially thought they were stubborn for always speaking French.
France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous prestige in the world, whatever the fate inflicted upon her.
In 1918, Germany suffered the ghastly consequences of defeat; France suffered those of victory, the price of which was to divide and embitter French politics and culture and lead to its defeat in 1940.