When Britain and France Almost Merged into One Country (2017)
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#2I thought they meant when the King of England was an actual frenchman and French was the upper-class language of the UK.
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#3They should have pitched a Franco-British football team. Might have sealed the deal.
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#4> Marshal Pétain, 84 years old and the great hero of World War I, believed it was his duty to save France from total destruction and accept an armistice with Germany. Britain was doomed, he said, and union would be “fusion with a corpse.” Another minister concluded: “Better be a Nazi province. At least we know what that means.” Reynaud later wrote in his memoirs, “Those who rose in indignation at the idea of union with our ally were the same individuals who were getting ready to bow and scrape to Hitler.”
Wow. I knew that England and France have historically disliked each other, but preferring to be a Nazi province?
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#5They should have pitched a Franco-British football team. Might have sealed the deal.
Yugoslavia probably would have won a World Cup by now. It’s a shame.
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#6> the origins of European integration—and the reasons why Britain ultimately pulled away
Anyone who was around for the UK's going into the then-called CEE (sporting all of 6 members) in the 70s will find little surprise at the current drama ...
(There were some Frenchmen worried it was an US submarine ...)
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#7> Marshal Pétain, 84 years old and the great hero of World War I, believed it was his duty to save France from total destruction and accept an armistice with Germany. Britain was doomed, he said, and union would be “fusion with a corpse.” Another minister concluded: “Better be a Nazi province. At least we know what that means.” Reynaud later wrote in his memoirs, “Those who rose in indignation at the idea of union wi…
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#8The deal fell apart at the end of June, and by July the Brits bombed out the French navy (killing 1300) as the French refused to turn it over to the British.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Mers-el-K%C3%A9bir
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#9> Marshal Pétain, 84 years old and the great hero of World War I, believed it was his duty to save France from total destruction and accept an armistice with Germany. Britain was doomed, he said, and union would be “fusion with a corpse.” Another minister concluded: “Better be a Nazi province. At least we know what that means.” Reynaud later wrote in his memoirs, “Those who rose in indignation at the idea of union wi…
History has not been kind to Pétain, and deservedly so.
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