world. In the early 1900s, it was feared.

And then it was ground down in slogfest of WW1.

I laugh at French-are-weak jokes too, but just to point out that they were once feared. I am not sure the British would have fared better if they shared a border with Nazi Germany in the 1930s. The English Channel saved them as they worked to get back on a war footing.

Still, the French make themselves easy targets with their cigarettes, bagguettes, and male capris. So fire away.