Not always, since they were allies in WW1 and, too, with the French 'Free' Forces (excepting, that is, the Vichy) in WW2. In the centuries previous to the 1900s, however, such a partnership -- against Germany, no less (Britain and Germany were allied against Napoleon's France), would have been almost unthinkable. The legends of Joan d'Arc were of France wresting back French territory from England.I get the funny side...and unless I think of it....is it because France and Britain have always been enemies?
Not always, since they were allies in WW1 and, too, with the French 'Free' Forces (excepting, that is, the Vichy) in WW2. In the centuries previous to the 1900s, however, such a partnership -- against Germany, no less (Britain and Germany were allied against Napoleon's France), would have been almost unthinkable. The legends of Joan d'Arc were of France wresting back French territory from England.
Strangely, that's what I've heard many from other countries say about Brits. Some of my Celtic-descendant friends warned me about my attempts at humor around some Germans we worked with because "they just don't have a comprehensive sense of humor like we do."an amazingly simple, fantastic sense of humour which we all enjoy, and which, unfortunately, "other" folks from "other" countries seem to lack......!
I get the funny side...and unless I think of it....is it because France and Britain have always been enemies?
It all dates back to a border dispute exactly 940 years ago.
Gryshnak
EDIT: I'm sure most of you all know - but the Bobbie is the traditional term for a policeman.
I think it was a tad later than that. http://www.geocities.com/beckster05/Agincourt/AgBattle.html
The Battle of Hastings, 1066 and all that, was responsible for an awful lot of anti-French (or at least anti-Norman) sentiment long before Agincourt.
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