' ... quelques arpents de neige .. ' - mention Voltaire to a canuck and immediately you get back what he said when in 1760ish he preferred to keep the sugar island Guadeloupe rather than Canada, 'a few acres of snow' -g-
' it's outright scorn and derision' - yeah, there is a lot of that going around, isn't there .... i do agree with you on the personal-symbol issue, no doubt about it, at the same time i note you failing to go back a very short distance in your own nation's history to find parallels for the current french situation .... hmm, that reminds me, Win posted upthread a four-page piece by a guy named Fallows, the first page had a very relevant piece on the experiment with theocracy under the puritans
There has been all sorts of US intolerance, official and non-official ... to my knowledge, no nation has been free of this quality, not the french either of course [i have a little huguenot blood] ..... hard to say, maybe i was just reacting to so many months here of petty cheap shots at the french, but i guess if you like Voltaire you're not saying they're all bad -g- .... cheers
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