Bastille Day / Palm Beach 2008
Most Americans have an unfavorable attitude toward the French. This antipathy is based on the abuse most US tourists have suffered from dismissive Paris waiters. Few realize that these garcons are rude to their own countrymen as well as any estrangers. That is not to say that the French don’t subscribe to a haughty self-esteem.
As the Belgium joked, “How does Frenchman kill himself? By lifting a pistol six inches over his head and shooting his superiority complex.”
It’s even funnier when told in French to the French.
Are the French ’surrender monkeys’ or ‘froggies’?
They did fold in WWII and many restaurants offer frogs legs, however I will defend the French, because they are loyal to those people they love, as I learned after working at Paris nightclubs in the 80s. My friends from that period are still my friends. All the French I met around the world are my friends too. They are funny, warm, and generous. Nasty too, but not like the Germans. So yesterday I raised a glass of wine and toasted the French, “Vive la France.”
Also it’s a little known fact that one of the 7 prisoners in the Bastille on that fateful day in 1789 was the Marquis de Sade, so maybe sado-masochists should celebrate his liberation by the French.”
Vive de Sade et Serge Gainsbourg aussi.
