Re De Gaulle -- Wasn't it a giggle how he couldn't stop going on about "La Gloire de la France": presumably his gloss on the fact that the French have lost every war they have fought in the last 800 years. And so he patronises us by kindly agreeing to cooperate with the leaders who really were winning the war; and then afterwards somehow infiltrating the [defeated surrender-monkey!] French into the peace process, getting them appointed to a permanent seat on the Security Council*, & all-in-all putting on dog with everyone's cooperation, instead of their being left, as they should have been, languishing on the sidelines with their tail between their poodle legs....

Or is that 'xenophobic'? If so, tough·tittie...

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*'The Security Council consists of fifteen members. The great powers that were the victors of World War II — Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, and the United States...' Wikipedia

Wot·the·hell are the Frogs doing in that formulation?