Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] [MLUG][DISCUSSION] Another reason not to be like France

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Mike Miller wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
>
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War#An_international_war.2C_1778.E2.80.931783 
> >
> >
> > And (given my British nationality), this is supposed to make me love 
> > the French more, how?
>
> Aren't you a US citizen now?

Yes.  I am a dual citizen.

> That is fascinating.  Someone should make a great feature film about 
> Napoleon, like the films they've been making about Elizabeth.

Actually, when I was a teenager, I had a fascination with the Napoleonic 
Wars, mostly from a wargaming point of view, but I read a history book 
or two.  (To be honest, I don't remember that much, and I seem to have 
learned more by watching the History Channel.)

Anyway, Napoleon's story has very little love interest - just a brief 
fling with Josephine - and I think that the movie would be as successful 
as, say, "Tora Tora Tora" - that is, utterly fascinating for geeks like 
you and me, but a bomb on on broad market.

There was a movie about the Battle of Waterloo.  Even as a little kid, I 
recognized it's historical inaccuracies, and actually at that time of my 
life, these things bothered me even more than they do now.

There are also a couple of black and white movies of Charles Dickens' "A 
Tale of Two Cities," which concerns itself with the French Revolution. 
I found this story utterly riveting.

Finally, if you are a connoisseur of anti-French sentiments, I can 
heartily recommend the Shakespeare plays "Henry V" and "Henry VI - part 
I."  The former play shows that the stereo type of British being beer 
drinkers and the French being wine drinkers is very old.  On the other 
hand, the play suggests that sexual morals in Britain were far looser 
than in France at that time, contrary to more modern times.

Stephen

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