France

liqueur  strawberry created 1685 when louis XIV visited Chambord. It was before  ..... Versailles.

A castle, a country, a drink, a cheese, and the bravest babie : louis XIV , at five he started to be the most powerful King in Europ, the bravest because every Lord of War wanted him death (La Fronde, he escaped From Le Louvre, to Saint Germain, trying to...survive! ) So he hated Le Louvre and decided VERSAILLES as  a political tool too.

and the most expensive political tool : (nb imitated by Friedrich , Sanssouci Gran Trianon, and tsar Pierre Ier )

Louis XIV the most hated babie became the most powerful king, absolute power, destroying all Lors of Wars, considering Protestantism as THE political major Threat, not institutionalizing problems, just THE Solver.

He made, like Buonaparte, too many wars, obssessed by an obvious goal : left bank of Rhine. Buonaparte was mad, Louis XIV prepared kingdom for his son, but couldn't get the whole left bank, Holland pb. His failure gave, according to many historians ... two WW. Only one man was with more power : CAROLUS MAGNUS.

CAROLUS MAGNUS, Charlemagne, was not french, but EUROPEAN. He had three grand sons, one got France, another Lothringen, another Goths. 1/3 each, first document in french language, Verdun 843 agreement.

When someone realized they 'd better to give to one ALL the wealth, (Francs Saliens invention), it was primogenitor system giving unfair but efficient system, the best of all times before democracy.

UK system today, with women having kingdom AND no power at all, F system yesterday giving power to men only, AND ALL POWERS. Excess of absolutism gave the biggest clever philosoph from teh Lumieres theorizing Separation of powers UK realized as the best democracy,  we'll see him tomorrow : 

       MONTESQUIEU. A pure genius, Descartes size.

             Chateau de la Brede - Bordeaux - F 

Here lived the biggest theorician of Separation of powers in democracy : Justice / Laws building / Law enforcement, our "John Locke", Montesquieu, L'esprit des lois, noble, preparing ....revolution.

French paradoxe: many revolutionaires actors were noble.

Two names : La Fayette and Monsieur de Beaumarchais.

  Good, old Chirac!   

 "You can't trust people who cook as badly as the British", he joked. "After Finland, it's the country with the worst food."

He then said, a Scot had made him try an unappetizing Scottish dish. "I was not amused."

Chirac , Jacques Chirac, is brave french : he physically took part in Resistance 1944, then was a Stratege to get President seat : Minister of ...Agriculture, because he noticed to get elected in country you neede ten thousand voters/ deputy, and elsewhere, suburb, Paris , cities, u needed 30 to 100 000 voters ! Typical french system (2 years in ENA big school to learn how it works. In a few days,  "Regionales" elections : NO ONE knows the proportional system, how it works, among voters ....and candidates).

Chirac : Lord Mayor of Paris, founding the biggest party here, RPR, just a heavy big machine to lethim be good president. He noticed that if girls = boys, girls should do Army service. So he founded that"strategicaly" we only needed professionals!  Actually he noticed few enthusiasm for women to serve in Army, and risked to lose elections.

CHIRAC big humorist, too. His wife, terrible. Now he is unfortunately totally agaga, because lifestyle ...hmm...

Brave , typically 'french' country with five hundred different cheese no one can seriously drive. 

Thanks for article(s). Do you have more examples of his humor? 

Dammit, I didnt know he had his own castle. Eat that John Locke, French political thinkers live in CASTLES.

"with such friends, no need to have enemies"

about Nicolas Sarkozy and Balladur "thirty years friends" and ...traitors. a "30 years friend " is now synonym of ..traitor. 

"it touchs me one, the other is quiet" 

about ...balls, he wanna say "that doen't matter"

"stop to hurt the flies " actually it is a polite way to say french expression : "don't f***ck  the flies", mean "stop to look at details of no importance".

PARADOX / Right wing Chirac was prime Minister of ....left wing Miterrand, incredible typical french paradox called "live together" cohabitation. 

If we Except de Gaulle, since two centuries, no real driver in our country, with the two biggest defeats in world wars history : Waterloo russian in Paris in 15 years, we needed centuries to fire Attila and followers ! and Mai 1940 the biggest all times all countries. 

Here everybody waits de Gaulle back. 

182 Raspberry 

9/10 of concepts of revolution were made by ... nobles!

Some of them had the head cut by ...guillotine.

France is the country of paradoxes.

Not far from Montesquieu 

Chateau d'Yquem    top since ..... 1855 !

Owner : B. Arnault, boss of .... Moet and Chandon,

        Louis Vuitton, hundreds of lux firms

Many say, that the guillotine is the most 'human', and most painfree way of 'putting a man to sleep.' Seems true, I would say 

I did'nt try. Livat01

France don't use it since 1981, first job from Pdt Mitterand. A paradox : in a democracy, nb : our country is generally considered as one, 60% are FOR sentence to death, and deputies will NEVER vote for law authorizing death sentence. Idem for a couple of decisions in Bruxelles,ex : concerning migs, most of European do NOT want them, and governements do what they want, don't care about people. It is not in history a good way to cope with problems, it is kind of technocracy dictature.

In France, they want no migs, because we have today, right now, plenty of spaniards coming (from EU) and plenty of portuguese coming for building here spaniard's houses , true.. In UK they thought to forbid migs from EU, just before migs OUT of Europ massively arrived, art is stopeed in CAlais, for years now, waiting in houses we build now... to go to England and welfare Beveridge system. This system everywhere exploses on a financial point of view.

A brave french using no guillotine: Robert Badinter. He said "NO" to death sentence in France. 5 hours of a talk in the Parliament.

Interesting : Badinter, a genial lawyer, recognized that in case of relapse, he was responsible of the second crime.

Which means each time someone who should have been executed kills another time, (recidivist), actually it is Badinter himself who is the criminal. What is genial, it is Badinter, against sentence to death, who found that argument, and ued it before enemies. 

He prepared evolution of thinking today :

towards criminals do NOT exist, just sick people, onl irresponsibles at  certain degree. It allows to create plenty of psy jobs in F, like in USA. People coming back from middle East will be re-educated, re-programmed, psy-helped by docs .... and tax payers. Our ministry of justice opens doors of prison, truth.

France the Brave will pretty soon have worse finance than Greece, let us say 3 to 4 years. Mechanism of debts, easy.

Reason why Brave Hollande Pdt attacked Mali, then sent forces in Syria, wanting noble cause about Bachar, to have a glorius epopee avoiding nervousbreakdown of frenchies. And something entertaining on TV and mdias. It works. more.

Fortunately Christine Lagarde, F,  is chief of IMF..

Brave Christine Lagarde, formerly minister of aeconomics here, explaining yesterday a little "mistake" of only four hundred millions euros in favour of a businessman . Nobody is perfect, before here IMF was in hands of french DSK, today bankrupt, , yesterday in love affair with ... France.

wiki. Tapie ! just fun he bought a futbol soccer match, he was minister,he was one year in jail, Lagrde gave him 400 millions euros, "error 404"! famous in France. Not a brave french, just an excited. Marseille. South, sea, sun, thrill.

 Coming soon ; champaign story, the treasure of monks,

Dom Perignon. 5*.

Listening to five hours of parliamentary debate makes the death penalty seem like sweet mercy!

I lived in France 1998-2002, it looked like it was declining already back then. French elite seems totally out of touch with everything.

Remember for the euro introduction Jospin went on live TV to a bakery to buy a baguette with euros, to show people that it was nice to buy a baguette with the euro.

The baker just said "it costs 6" and he was thinking francs not euros ... and jospin gave him 6 euros for a baguette without blinking an eye, thus revealing he had ZERO idea what a baguette cost. Like he is a tourist and arrived in France just 5 minutes ago and knows nothing about prices or how anything works.

not the debate, only Badinter's speech. Debate : weeks!

Raspberry 190 :

right "French elite" today has nothing to do with France the Brave, fortunately.

"People are NOT the country, just veals", Charles de G.

It is like to compare Berlusconi with AUGUSTUS emperor.

Since years started a brain drain, four  hundred thousand french work in London, for instance. (my daughter!).

in politics, there is a tri-party system : socialists most of them come now from the diversity after Mitterrand's  professor Republic: juste hate of enterprise, just  uneducated profs, knowing how to spend money in a crazy way (Jack Lang culture money x 5!, giving money for RAP, TAG, crazy theater in Aubervilliers, Urban Sax in plastic bags, just madness like in caligula years, believe it), no idea how to win it. They got power because rightwing has fear of extreme right wing, sort of terror aequilibrium.

NB Mitterrand socialist label was.. right inside , als Hollande. Mitterand had to fire communists, and succeed in it.

Not easy to understand our 500 cheeses country..

Considering the today decline, it is obvious. Because of taxes, all who has IQ 101 gets out of the country. Kiribati ?

But here I wanna lis all dates where France was nothing, nada, niente. Incredible country.

1. JUIN 1940 : France zero Kelvin!    

                   20 years later  1960 : third nuclear power 

2. aout Septembre 1914 : Germany 70 km from Paris.

                 11/1918 : victory, with decisive help of allies.

3. 1871 : 7 MD GOLD FRANC to pay to Germany, Alsace Lorraine in Germany. 1880 : F finished to pay, years in ..advance (cf. Tsipras and folks)

4. 1815 : Waterloo   18 of JUNE (cf. de Gaulle London call)

Russian tourists on the Champs Elysees !  last time was in XV th , english.

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Jospin could'nt be educated in economics, he was history teacher, thinking Gambetta was Dreyfusard. (Gambetta was dead years before Affair). Jospin was chosen by Mitterand who was certain Jospin could'nt be a menace for Mitterrand's goal. 

Today we have custom to say Angela filtered migs , and sick and illeterated were for ...F.

F will as usual come to an end, and either some de Gaulle will be back, either we'll be a kind of Lousiana with some french quarter for tourists, with communautarists ghettos like Calais, starting to build now free real houses for migs,  with arab 1st language, for demographics purpose., and suburbs inside countries like Washington, DC, in a certain epoque 60's.Why not ?

Just facts.

Albert Camus died in a car crash with a Facel Vega. What was the reason for the crash, do you think? Was it sabotage?