the French [Theme] Page 1

You're so English that you're practically French.

You can't convince people by killing! We are not French, after all ...

Sometimes it seems to me that the French treat their basements in the same way that Americans treat life insurance: an accident is unlikely, but if it happens, then the survivors will be provided for. Understandably, neither insurance nor a basement full of vintage burgundy can ease the pain of a family tragedy. However, the desire to equip such a storage is due to similar emotional reasons: if any misfortune happens, we at least leave something behind.

The French always serve bread, and without butter (except for breakfast, toast or tartins). Therefore, during dinner, you will not find oil on the table. Usually baguettes are bought for dinner, and the French cut off or simply break off pieces from them, putting them on the table, and not on the plate. To determine that the meal is truly French, you can by the huge number of crumbs on the table.

Together is the underlying word and idea. The meaning of joint meals is not so much in food as in unity. While food itself is important and enjoyable, the most important is the process of setting the table together, gathering together, eating together, and cleaning together.

Dinner is a sacred ritual, one of the most essential activities for humanity, and it requires reverent treatment.

True or not, the fact remains that a French house is being built around a dining room.

The French know how to find pleasure in everyday life like no one else.

The words of the hostess of the house accurately reflected the very essence of the French worldview: solemnly set the table, adhere to rituals and traditions, and then play a little naughty and get pleasure from it.

The cause of the collapse of this great company will be the French, and the lack of discipline.

The French did not bring any catapults or other siege weapons. The money was invested in the purchase of silks and velvet, embroidered with gold brocade, carts Laden with expensive food and barrels of wine. Why a thousand miles to tow in Europe heavy guns, if despicable enemy can easily cope without it? This choice must be determined by European culture.

When the Portuguese, the Dutch, the British and the French came to Southeast Asia, they divided it among themselves just as modern gangsters divided the city into spheres of influence. They not only redrew the geography, but also distorted the course of history. In the era of colonialism, the ties between Jakarta and Amsterdam or between Singapore and London were closer than between Jakarta and Singapore. These are the absurd consequences of the colonial rule of the Europeans.

Terrible to say, but there was not such total violence of some people over others, which was not made in the name of patriotism. In the name of patriotism the Russians fought with the French, the French with the Russians, and in the name of patriotism is now preparing the Russian with the French to fight against the Germans and in the name of patriotism is now ready the Germans to fight on two fronts. But not only wars - in the name of patriotism the Russians stifled the poles and the Germans, the Slavs; in the name of patriotism Communards killed of Versailles Versailles and the Communards.

- A Republic will not work?
- Republic in France? Yes do the people that do not want to! The French definitely need someone to love or hate.