Gene, you beat me to "coup de foudre". Also happened to me in France. But unlike yours, mine did not take. A lightning bolt I should have ducked. But the temptation was overwhelming. I was spending the summer in France with a group of American high school French teachers. The ratio was interesting: 36 women, 4 men. One of the men was over 60. Another one was gay. Might have been a case of my making a bad choice.

In the French funnies, Flash Gordon was Guy L'eclair.