Interesting spin. De Gaulle, who infamously said after WW2; "We will astonish them with our ingratitude." "Them" meaning the US and the UK.
What a nice guy..
De Gaulle has lived the French loneliness before WWII, and he spent a lot of time with the British and Americans afterwards. He knew what was negotiable and what was not, and what risks he could and could not take.
We will have to agree to disagree on that. Churchill went to great lengths to put DeGaulle front and centre because he knew how important he was for French morale.
I can't see that happening if it had been the UK that had fallen first.
sarcastically in France "The burning of Joan of Arc while tied to the rock of St Helena" being an obvious example of an ahistorical joke poking fun at extreme nationalism in the same way as "Magna Carta, that brave Polish peasant girl," does.
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What a nice guy..
It just confirms me in my view of DeGaulle as being somewhat prejudiced against the UK and keen to justify his opinion with fantasies.
De Gaulle has lived the French loneliness before WWII, and he spent a lot of time with the British and Americans afterwards. He knew what was negotiable and what was not, and what risks he could and could not take.
I can't see that happening if it had been the UK that had fallen first.
That does not prevent the UK and America from leaving France alone before WWII.
And that does not prevent De Gaulle from very well knowing them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfidious_Albion
That is where it should stay.
Did you not read the first appearance of the term in Italy and its frequent use by fascists during the 1930s.
The entry also features a propaganda cartoon of WW1, designed to dehumanise an enemy the Germans were fighting at the time.
Not to mention the times when it was used