RWTF, having just spent a few days in Quebec, I have reminded myself that I am generally no fan of the French. In fact, I heard earlier today that France had pre-emptively surrendered to North Korea. But i have to admit, they do a few things very well.
Double guns is one and food is another.
I know you are proud of your Irish heritage but, as with the English and the Scots, of which I am one, I'm not sure we have much of a leg to stand on when it comes to complaining about food from other lands.
My oldest daughter, as her mother (my first Frau) majored in French in HS- for her HS (my daughter's) senior trip, they were going to Paris for ten days- The Sorbonne, the Louve, the Champs de Ulysses, all the arrondisments (sic) Ernie Hemingway knew, and wrote about in the "Moveable Feast" !! But World terrorism had already reared its sad and sorry head, and the PTB decided a trip to Quebec was safer- so they went there-
Montreal is indeed, also a moveable feast indeed. Lynne's mother graduated from Oberlin Ladies College in Ohio with a solid major in French; and went to Paris one summer to study at the Sorbonne, the next summer to Switzerland to study at Bern-- so she had more of the influx of how the French folk speak their native language--! Lynne and her mother conversed in French as part of her HS study-- and when she and her friends returned, she told her mother-- "Mom, they don't speak real French French in Quebec, do they?''
Being a mix of Slavic and Irish lineage, I avoid food covered with rich sauces- recalling the old adage-- "Doctors bury their mistakes in graveyards, lawyers send their mistakes to elected political office, and bad cooks cover their mistakes with sauces one has trouble pronouncing well"
As to the Frogs as gun-makers- from a military standpoint, they stink- as for the sporting guns, recalling the late Michael Mcintosh's review of Georges Granger shotguns-- If they are George's guns, let them be and move on to the really great Limey and Italian sidelocks--
No greater egos exist than in France-- one of the numbered Louie's had the audacity to state "Le Etat, C'est Moi" How ballsy- or should I say- Balzac, is that???
