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Poor France? Poor grammar…
What is “Hisory” anyways?
And as a German I must say that France does win wars every now and then…remember Napoleons conquest of most of Europe, or the way they repelled us in World War I. And the large Empire they carved out of Africa and South Asia. Or, for you Americans: Your War of Independence that they helped you winning. This joke about France losing at wars is really old an inaccurate.
We Germans usually make a similar joke about the Italians, now they really didn’t win much since Roman times…conquest of Ethopia or Lybia wasn’t that impressive, and they even changed sides in both World Wars when they tides turned. We still like them for their way of life and food though.
Anti joke chicken
qft
How many gears does an Italian tank have? Five – four of them are reverse, ones forward just in case the enemy comes from behind!
I agree i remember reading in textbooks italy actualy lost against ehtiopia… still don’t know how they managed with tanks but well
Well, we won the WW1… (we changed side before entering war…
D)
Your Austrian cousins are still sh**ting their pants when you say “monte grappa”…
In WW2 our soldiers went in Russia with boots made out of paper… I can’t image how some of them managed to come back…
D
Wouldn’t you changed side at that point?
By the way, we do a lot of joking too about the leggendary “mental elasticity” of our northern neighbours, but we still (or probably because of that) apreciate their cars and motorbike (and their women
P) a lot…
Anti-joke chiken: How’bout Napoleon, the french revolution, Thirty Years’ War, and the list goes on and on.
The thirty yaers’ war was in Germany, between Catholics and Lutherans. Problem?
The Problem is that you fail in history. France joined the Thirty Years War in 1635.
Protestants and Catholics from Sweden, Denmark, Austria, Spain and France were also involved.
If I remember correctly France was catholic but on the protestant side because they were kind of traitors back then.
Yup, France has won more than half of the wars they fought, much more than other countries.
Maybe he meant The Seven Years’ War?
lol sry replied to rowng person :3
Actually the Hundred Years War was in France, though it was a Civil War.
Depends on how you define civil, because it was the invasion of France by Britain.
Can’t tell if trolling or just very stupid.
Must be stupid…he missed by three centuries!
The hundred years war, was not only a civil war, it started as a conflict between England and France… And it was ca. 260 years after the battle of Hastings.
The battle of Hastings was in the year 1066, when William the Conqueror (a norman Lord) conquered anglo-saxon England.
Lol you sir have made my day.
Did Jean D’arc participate in this Battle of Hastings? Oh wait, no, it was Richard the Lionheart, and it was the Battle of Orleans.
….William the Conqueror…. Richard is from the Crusaders.
No, the Seven hours War
Not sure if you are trolling or really dumb..
Not sure if not checking facts or making uneducated (i.e. stupid) reply.
Help the rest of us and grow a brain.
Um…Napoleon was Italian, his original last name was Bonapartè (pronounced Bon-ä-part-è). He changed it to Bonaparte (pronounced Bon-â-part)
So, don’t count the emperor.
Ok, first of all, he wasn’t Italian. He was born on the island of Corsica, which was it’s own nation.
Secondly, what does his nationality have to do with it? He moved to France at a young age, became a military general and then emperor. As France’s emperor he proceeded to take over most of Europe.
Corsica was not an independent nation. In fact, they were reconquered by France after a brief period of independence the same year Napoleon was born. Napoleon spoke French, Italian, and Corsican alike.
Nation =/= state ….
This. Corsica was and still is a nation.
This. Corsica is part of France, not its own nation.
France bought Corsica from Genoa a year before he was born. So he was French.
Napoleon was born in French Corsica, moved to France, lived in France. He fought for France. Was emperor of France. So he was french. End of story.
Yo, Bonaparte was from Corsica, go check a history book, yo.
more exactly his last name was Bonaparte pronounced Bonapàrte (with stress on the 2nd “a”) and means “good side” in Italian…
Are you dumb ?
Napoleon was from corsica which is a French region…
FINALLY people who know History!
Napoleon? oh! you mean that italian who tried to conquer europe, but failed twice, in Russia and Waterloo?
French revolution? oh! You mean that one that french fought against other french?
I would really like to see your list that goes on and on.
*facepalm* Bonaparte wasn’t italian, and the french revolution wasn’t a war…
JESUS GO TO WIKIPEDIA
Lol… Wikipedia.
wtf are you loling about? Is this a paper for school? Nope, Chuck Testa… I mean, then wikipedia is a fine source of information.
But you never know when Wikipedia pages could be edited by trolls and such.
Go ahead and troll a popular wikipedia page, such as the french revolution, and see how long it stays up there for. Prolly about twenty minutes before it gets cited as sh*t or taken off completely. Unlike text books, which are basically published, unchangeable sh*t that is generally swayed one way anyhow. Wikipedia is a changing source that is able to evolve and be corrected- making it more accurate and up-to-date than any other source.
One word: Viet-Nam.
That’s the real reason why Americans have a beef against the French
^this
NOPE. The French Revolution was a -wait for it- revolution! So, it was a Civil War. I think you’re mistaking “The French Revolutionary Wars” which were caused by the undermining of centuries of monarchical rule in other states in Europe, leading to the expansion of the French Republic in order to consolidate it’s new-found ideology and keep the others from reinstating the King.
*sigh*
Correction: *le sigh*
American war of independence?
Never would have been won without French intervention…Cheers
thank doG someone _finally_ bought that one up.
it was only by Comte de Rochambeau good grace that the British at Yorktown surrender to Washington instead of to some French guy who couldn’t win a warrrr… oh no, oh wait, he actually won that one, just one of the last and the most important battle of the American War of independence …
The French Revolution was a miserable failure, glorified in history books. Napoleon was an Hitler before Hitler.
War is bad.
Have cookies.
Napoleon was not Hitler. Napoleon was an egotistical short man, but he did believe in limited liberalism (which is a very good thing) and he did not genocide entire races of Untermen. Comparing the military campaigns of Hitler and Napoleon, sure. Comparing the men: child, please.
Napoleonenjoyed enslaving entire nations under the rule of France. About half of France was built on physical and/or cultural genocide.
And Italian pieces of art…
D
Actually, Napoleon was around average height for a man in his time. You see, One french foot from back then was about and inch and a half taller than one english foot, so the measurements wereall wrong. In fact napoleon was around 5″9/10. Thanks stephen fry
^THIS
The French revolution was French people fighting French people, so it doesn’t count.
The french revolution was the beginning of all civil rights in Europe.
If you think people really enjoyed civil rights after the revolution, you are deepely mistaken. France gets blamed on a regular basis by Europe of denial of basic rights and forcefull assimilation of (native) minorities.
napoleon was defeated at Waterloo
H-H-H-History BREAKER
good one
I’m French, and when we speak about “revolution’s war”, we don’t actually speak about the fight between the people and the king, we speak about the war betwen the young french republic and ennemies like Austria and Germania.
About Napoleon, he was french, born in corsica, and he lose just twice… But before that he always won (even against english in Egypt or in Portugal).
Don’t forget hundred years war (we won), and thirty years war (again), of World War One (we won, thanks for you help at the end).
And we won against english when we saved you during your “revolution” ; )
And don’t forget medieval period.
But since World War Two… Well we can’t win everytime… Even in Vietnam… Or Algery… Well ok, our army is pathetic now ; )
You sound like you know what you are talking about, so I’ll reply to you directly. Sincere, NOT TROLLING. Sorry that your country got a bad reputation because others took the lime-light since WW1.
This
When have the French won since Napoleon stopped winning?
The French lost in 1871, they barely avoided defeat in 1914 through the aid of the far more experianced British Expeditionary Corps and only managed to succed in that war with the help of the United States.
In 1939 the French were defeated and only were able to regain their independence when the Americans, British and Canadians took over the show in 1944.
The French didn’t win the Thirty Years War since that didn’t show any decisive victor, the status quo ante bellum was mostly restored.
Hmmm let’s see… Europe ganged up on a military powerhouse and slapped Napoleon down until he died alone on a secluded island… and then France had to *rebuild* and find their national pride, which made it even MORE important since the restored Monarchy was a completely incompetent one. They regained some self-respect with Napoleon II but instantly lost it again… then they got owned by the Prussians because, again, their Monarchy was incompetent… So yeah, sure, the French not winning after Napoleon makes no sense at all!
*facepalm*
Most European armies are pathetic now, so you have nothing to be ashamed of. France is an awesome place full of good food and pimpin’ culture. Oh and they should have won the 2006 world cup. Materazzi est un “zizi.”
You won World War 1?!?!?!!? Is that why only the Americans broke through German lines while you sat in the trench.
You mean how the americans won a few battles in 1918? After four years of doing nothing but protesting german submarines while everyone else in Europe was fighting? Americans, always used to be late for every war now its the other way around.
If you play League of Legends, you can say that americans just “KS” ww1.
and when has america won a war since WW2?
vietnam … epic fail
afghanistan…nope
Irak … err
so much for what used to be the first country in the world (china much?)
and yes coming late after the begining of the battle to finish a tired oponent is just being a kitty
so you really shouldn’t be hating on france
and remember technically the “real” americans are the indians (yes the ones you mostly slaughtered)
and you are mostly european decendants
You sir, just made my day.
Allons enfants de la patriiiiiiiiiiiiiiie le jour de gloire eeeeeeeeeeeest arrivé!
Enfin quelq’un d’intelligent! Parce que la plupart des gens qui commentent ici croient que la France est un pays de loosers… Du coup ça ne mérite même pas d’être traduit en Anglais!
*quelqu’un
Actually France has one of the most powerful air force in the world. And is third in term of nuclear power after Russia and the U.S.A. I think
The only battle he won in Portugal was in 1807 when he was being helped by 35000 spanish soldiers against the Portuguese army alone, no English. 5 years latter when Portugal was THE ONLY NATION TO SUPPORT ENGLAND
I failed by pressing post
(…), by saying no to the landlock, and then napolean lost 3 times in a row against Portugal, he raged to much and gave up.
Or their systematic eradication of Vietnamese history, replacing it with their own?
How’bout Napoleon, the french revolution, Thirty Years’ War, and the list goes on and on.
Napoleon: Got the boot after Russia, again after Waterloo.
The Revolution: Fighting yourself doesn’t count as winning a war.
The American Revolution: OK, you get to share this one with The US.
WWI: You get this one
WWII and after: No need to say anyting else. Oh, ok: Vichy France, Maginot Line ; )
So happy enough people know European history to recognize all these French victories. Besides that, I seem to recall France winning WWI and resisting Germany in WWII long enough to stick around after V-E day and remain a world leader.
“Resisting” long enough, doesn’t really count as winning, French military was no match for the Germans then.
Napoleon of course was great, every nation can be stopped if everyone is against you, but the conquests he did do were of such magnificient magnitude and multitude that that doesn’t even matter. One of the greatest military geniuses of all times.
France WON WWII! Jeez, read books !
I’m french, dude, and I must admit we failed that one. Pétain was a HUUUUUGE ASS. But the people did resist, and we can be proud of that.
Yeah!
How about all ended up as defeats?
Plus, Napoleon isn’t really French.
The French Revolution?
BAHAHHAHA.
Not sure if trolling, or just very stupid.
Oh, a joke about France written by Americans who think the French being conquered in a single war is the only defining moment of the entire country.
True story: If America had been in the same position, at the same point in time, Germany would have conquered them too.
objection!
assuming by America you mean the United States, you are talking about 3x the land mass of all of easter europe combined! That would be like Florida deciding they are going to occupy the remainder of the US. ….
..anyways, this meme is stupid and was written by someone who is stupid
easter europe??
XDD
Buahahahahah
It’s the American-teenage way to make trite statements about France. Just like Randian Conservatism. Or caring enough about current tween-idol pop-star to make a meme of it. Or masturbating furiously several times a day.
lol
Please take your U.S.A stereotypes elsewhere. At least anyone who has taken U.S history knows that if it weren’t for the French, we U.S Americans would probably be ruled by the queen right now.
No you wouldn’t, you’d be british still, therefore ruled by David Cameron
AAMRICUH
Well, normally your entire country being conqured would count as a pretty significant “Defining moment.”
And about Germany beating the United States, we are 14.5 times larger than the landmass of france, I think we could stop them in time.
Germany had the largest and most powerful army, as well as being the wealthiest nation in the world at the begging of world war two. The Luftwaffe was also much stronger than the American air force prior to 1943.
Your statement about Germany being the wealthiest nation in the world prior to WWII is factually incorrect.
In the years after 1918 Germany had many financial and economic troubles which were caused by the toll the war had taken on the economy and the reperations they were forced to pay to France, Britain and the US.
While they did regain some economic stability in the 20′s, they were hit hard by the gread depression in 1929. These economic perrils were the deciding factor that led Hitler and his NSDAP into power. From then on, Hitler build an economy based on debt, that he only new to repay through conquering other nations.
Therefore it is very evident, that Germany was not the wealthies nation at that time.
Correct. Play Hearts of Iron 2 or 3 as Germany and attack the US in the mid-1930s…if you play wisely you can rather easily conquer the US, the only problem being the inferior German navy. While I acknowledge that HoI is just a game, it is very accurate at depicting the historical situation of the 1930s and 40s.
Just a game, are the operative words there.
Really? Cuz I’m pretty sure we have managed to stop every invasion like the British and the Japanese in the Islands of Alaska. American’s don’t quit and we sure as hell won’t bow to a foreign power.
http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/gallery/obama-bowing/ correction!
*History
Everyone below this line is too late
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France wins wars.
Civil wars.
Couldn’t you say that France lost to itself?
Or that it beat itself.
this is racist again
nope. because french are not a race. problem?
none now, cos i wanted one of these for the night. thank you
my pleasure, good sir.
Kinda more like a sub-genus, right?
First!
Learn how to spell!
The correct question would be:
“Why there is Italian history?”
As BC French victories apparently count and such, I present to you: The Roman Empire. Ultimate badasses for almost two millenia.
Middle ages were not in BC. Also, can I point out that it was a French king who invaded England, conquered the saxons, and basically created the English language?
umm…the roman empire?
At a time when… well, Italy wasn’t Italy ? Too bad.
It was still Italy, it just had another name. Besides, they still have ROME as a capital.
That’d be like saying the United States’ history only begun after the declaration of Independence because before that they weren’t called the United States of America.
Oh… and that cultural movement called “the Renaissance” that begun in Italy, caused a huge development in science, medicine, art, etc, and erradicated the ignorance and religious corruption of the Dark Ages. No big deal, right?
OWNED!!!
Actually, there were an “Italica”… During the Roman republic, and the “social war” (civil war against Italian non citizens of th republic and Roman’s citizen) but the lose against Marius and Sylla so…
But the won World war one with us… After changing their camp… (same idea for world war two actually)
“HISORY”
^THAT
you stole my ‘tunder.’
It’s a type of sauce you put on your ribs…
I sell propane and propane accesories.
Isn’t that Hickory?
Why do I have to be the one to point out “Hisory”? Ironic, given that the intention was to make fun of others for being losers.
HISTORY*
I am 12 and what is this?
History is what happened before you were born
If you weren’t alive before the Berlin Wall fell than you are bound to forever live in Fukujama’s “post-historic” period
Because the french army has won more major battles than any other?
Napoleon, Charlemagne, Joan of Arc, William the Conqueror, the Curies: not every French person in history, or as Philosorapter calls it ‘hisory’, was a failure.
No, Napoleon got his ass handed to him… that is still a loss
You seem to forget, my dear sir, that Napoleon lost because the other European countries were pussies and needed to fight him together.
Again and again and again and again ; )
Then why aren’t you defending nazi Germany? They lost because the whole world was against them as well.
as a fellow historian, you sir, have a point.
and any historian would know, Hitler/his generals had a badass tactic, just like Napoleon. you can hate the nazis about the way they treated people and everything else, apart from how ruthlessly efficient they were at fighting. just like Napoleon. Looking at the big picture, both of them won more battles than they lost.
Agreed. It’s not like napoleon (or hitler for that matter) hade useless war machines and lost their wars as soon as they started them. They came quite close to achieving total victory.
Closer than the US in the vietnam war, anyways.
The Vietnam war is an American loss, actually. Regardless of Vietnamese casualties, it was the Americans who pulled out, and it was the Americans who issues the ceasefire.
Re-read his comment.
Hitler had more allies than Napoleon. Japan was a significant force, Italy notsomuch, but they did fight. Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania also fought. They weren’t significant powers, but that’s more than the French under Napoleons had.
You could argue that William the Conqueror wasn’t French.
troll spoted
*History
Dumb, teh losing country is Poop.
Because the French have the most prestigious military record in European history:
since 380BC, 168 battles / 109 victory / 10 draws.
since 1495, 50 battles for French, and 43 for Good ol’ Britain…
Explain that, internet.
You, sir, deserve a statue in Paris.
Also, I think we are all being trolled by a dumb 14 yo US teenage whom doesn’t know that without France, the USA would not be…
Good night to thee all.
Ye all*. Thee is singular ye is plural. Incorrect use of archaic pronouns will not be tolerated.
*You all. If you’re talking Victorian (I am), thee and thou are object and subject forms of the singular (specifically, the familiar single) and ye and you are the same of the plural/formal (single or plural).
Makes Darth Vader rather rude when he says “What is thy bidding, mi master?”
Thank you both.
I could never find an english teacher capable of explaining that kind of stuff…
yeah, one of those who hate France just because apparently it is a dumb popular non-internet meme that France hasn’t won any battles when in fact they have won most of their battles.
Also American independence was won with the help of France.
Oh, you fool! Don’t you know that the history of the world started in 1776? That’s what this yank told me anyways…
But you look at how good the French are at occupying land where they defeated the occupants….
Can’t say much about that…
History? Is that an understandable concept for a country who didn’t celebrate 3 centuries of existence yet? How old is your oldest monument again? Where would you be without Lafayette, know your own history guys
MOHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
*WINS*
Hey, Americans, who helped you during the War of Independence, you think?
Thanks for that, otherwise we would all be speaking english!
lol
Canada still hates you for Quebec though. By contrast Americans tend to like Louisiana.
Quebec is the best place in NA
The victor’s wrote about them.
france won WW1, 100 years war, 30 years war, american independence war…
We helped them win WW1 and Prussia helped in the American war for Independence.
anyone trying to make a meme about history should learn something about history first..
Or, in the case of yanks, have some history first.
A little brat of a country, roughly 230 years old, thinks itself superior in every single way, yet what they mainly brag about is their military capacity. That’s not something to brag about when said military is pulling your country’s economy into the gutter. Also, it goes to show their lack of cultural sophistication compared to Europe.
It’s kind of like how muslims like to point out the scientific advancements “they” made 900 years ago, because they know that no modern muslim country has ever achieved anything worth mentioning.
As much as I agree how the French people are sorry excuses of the human race, I must say whoever made this horrible meme should be found and thrown into the gas chamber!
But they never exist…
Have you ever been to a nazi extermination camp ? i have.
you Americans (people from the USA..) got one of the most popular modern wonders of the world, and still you manage to complain or pick on the people you got it from?
Intelligence: 1 USA inhibitants: 0
One of the most popular modern wonders?
What are you referring to?
Statue of Liberty, or “Statue de la Liberté”.
Anyway, lol at frenchies
What the heck is hisory?!
Obviously, the Victor, in such a way as to portray France as a country that never prevails in combat. In fact, it would seem that the American (mis)understanding of French history is a prime example of this principle.
Yeah the French are pretty big losers alright. . .they only conqured most of Europe and a bit of Africa and they didn’t show up late for both world wars like the United States. Do your homework before making an assinine statement like that.
We saved your asses from Hitler and you know it.
And the Russians did. And the Canadians. And the British. But let’s just forget about them.
trolling? you partly owe American independence from Britain to the French
The soviets were responsible for the definitive defeat of nazi Germany, and you know it.
North americans were probably the most useless troops on the european front.
Well, certainly not most useless, but Soviet Union actually had biggest part on winning war.
Oh, and French were always so patriotic. Take Vichy France for example.
Well they were good to found jews… That’s maybe evil but it’s a proof of our quality isn’t it ? ^^
The Free French Army and fought with General Patton and were there with the Americans and British for the Liberation of Paris and France. They were 550,000 strong by 1944 and 900 troops stormed Utah Beach with the British Air Services.
The French Resistance and Maquis fought against the Vichy and Nazis using guerilla warfare and a large underground movement with newsmedia.
The russians did. The US kind of saved us from the russkie communists, though.
You saved our asses 4 years after the Nazi begin to exterminate everyone, our heroes
1. Napoleon’s conquest of Europe was hundreds of years ago. By comparison, the British conquered an entire quarter of the world, and Mongolia- a band of nomadic tribesmen at the time- a slightly smaller amount. As discussed above on this thread, once Napoleon was exiled, their entire empire fell apart.
2. Practically every major European country ruled part of Africa at the end of the nineteenth century- even Belgium. Look at the size of Belgium on a map, and compare it with that of France.
3. Of course they didn’t- since they were invaded at the start of both of them, it would have been impossible for them to show up late. In the second world war, they surrendered to the Germans at a very early stage, and (while admittedly there was a noble resistance) a large part of their population collaborated with the most evil being ever to haunt mankind.
The above is by no means intended to disparage the French or their achievements, but simply to correct the above facts, and the somewhat arrogant attack on someone who clearly produced a meme in the spirit of humor.
This is ruining Philosoraptor’s good name.
Yeah, don’t the questions have to be somewhat philosophical? Maybe questioning free will or whatnot?
I’m French and I laugh at my own army’s failures ; But I can ’cause I know what has happened in the past , and you may need to learn what happened in my country before you try to tell it. We have a prestigious past at many levels, and France was writing its victories in books long before the idea of the United States existed. (United States which are btw, guess what, part French thanks to our settlers). So thanks for you “hisory class”, but no thanks.
Not sure if trolling, or just unable to write “history”.
Try hungarian history.
Hungarian warriors fought all europe during the middle age, even in France so…
Poor poland ball. It cannot into space.
France kicked Mexico’s ass a few days/weeks after the battle that mexico celebrates every year, so not always a failing country
Well this was a failure of Napoleon III (and he lost after again prussians)
Even if France hadn’t have won any wars, this still wouldn’t make sense. When people say history is written by the victors, it means that history is written from the victor’s perspective. It doesn’t mean the losers won’t be recorded as losing.
THIS IS AWESOME. I want to see it on memebase and I want it to have MORE CHEEZBURGERS than this sorry piece of dim-witted dillweed at the top.
Lets get that to the front page
^Ceci
YYEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH ! Front page !!
dat reality.
Does Philosoraptor ever wonder why there are so many French-based words in our language? Battle of Hastings, anyone?
And Danish words !
Can’t tell if trolling or just Danish…
English is mostly a mishmash of French and Germanic languages, both influenced by Latin, but with random words picked up from dozens of other languages as needed. Look up Angles, Saxons, Gauls.
English, as a language, stinks and like the US tends to borrow (steal) from just about everything. This makes the rules and adaptations inconsistent commonly enough.
… meh
And who were the normans, then? As the name shows, they were Norsemen (mainly from denmark and modern day southern Sweden). They were allowed to settle in northern france so as to keep other vikings from raiding the sh!t out of paris. all in all, they were francofied scandinavians and therefore not indigenous frenchmen.
The battle of stamford bridge and the battle of hastings were all battles between ethnic scandinavians from norway, the dane law (england) and normandy.
French is the language of battle, of course! Even their national anthem is an example of how much a fighter country they are
Ha, ha, ha, hilarious to get a history lesson from an american guy….nope seriously guys read books from time to time….
Because of the American Revolution, for one.
Napoleon says hai.
no he doesnt he got his ass kicked and lost
Can tell if stupid or trolling: stupid.
I hate how this first thing I see is Hisory and notice it’s spelled wrong
No, hisory is spelled right, if you intend to spell hisory. History is spelled wrong though.
The French conquered most of Europe under Napoleon. They also were crucial in the winning of the American War of Independence. And even though they were occupied by the Germans in WWII, the French resistance movement continued to fight bravely to undermine the Nazi regime.
Problem is, there were much bigger resistance movements in much smaller countries. Slovakian resistance took half of country in 1944. Yugoslavian resistance never allowed Germans to fully control it. Heck, even Czech resistance managed to kill Hitler´s second man.
Oh, and Napoleon was corsican. And he failed so hard. He failed in diplomacy. And than failed in war too when he got his ass kicked before Moscow gates.
But what happened to Napoleon again? ; )
he forged an empire all the way to russia.
And then lost.
Badly.
Then Exiled.
Went to power a second time.
Then lost.
Badly.
*cough* war of 1812 *cough*
*cough* canada had about 1/10 th your army and still pushed you back to Washington and burn’t down your whitehouse *cough*
Problem eh?
You mean the war where the Americans defeated the British?
*Cough* Our Army wasn’t as trained as Canada’s (Which would actually be considered Britan’s army, not canada’s)
Ask the Romans about that…
Umm the Romans conquered all of Gaul.
Except for one small village in the Bretagne, if you read Asterix
^ça
Because by the end of the day, France is a big country and therefore, not as big of a loser as e.g. Estonia is.
+100 internets for you sir.
France has the most victory to loses count than any other country.
Americans can u please stfu. U didnt win ww2 Russia did. in fact i dont think uve ever won a war without help.
Fellow American patriots, we already look stupid enough as it is. Stop acting like you have a degree in history…
The Mexican-American War and the Spanish American War say high.
but do they say too damn high?
A. you misspelled “hi”
B. At both those times, the Mexicans and the Spanish were two of the WEAKEST military powers (considering their size) in the world.
I am American, we do pretty well in wars, but the French do too.
America produced fighter planes and tanks for Britain before we joined the war. American troops and supplies helped to defeat Germany in both world wars. we won the cold war. we and the brave Brits and Canadians stormed the beaches of Normandy. American airborne units held Bastogne.
We (regrettably) created the atomic bomb.
All the Allies won WWII collectively.
Russia took down Germany.
Italy Gave up.
And The United States took down Japan.
And where was France in all of this?
*Cough* Vichy *Cough*
So don’t be talking about WWII, especially in a topic about France.
Oh, also: The Quasi War. Look it up.
never heard of FFL and FFI ?
The united states took down Japan by killing over 200,000 innocent civillians
Winning the cold war is not really something to be proud of. I’m glad we won instead of Soviet Russia, but the whole thing was just one deplorable act of brinksmanship after another. Thank god Reagan didn’t pull a cowboy move and blow the world to hell.
^This. The Russians actually were having their butts handed to them by the Germans on their front.
Except for the part where they outproduced every single country in the world and steamrolled the Germans. Really, you can’t give the victory of WWII to any single nation. If the allies didn’t invade mainland Europe, the USSR would’ve failed. If the USSR didn’t win several major victories and started pushing the Germans back, the allied invasion would’ve failed as well.
Portugal spent more time in war then America’s age. If you think you have a fantastic history, you are wrong, America only started to show in the map in the late XIX century.
And by the way, France did lost 3 times in a row against portugal in the 1810′s.
i am an american teen. I am also a history buff. french kicked ass in ww1, and the french people fought German oppression for the entirety of the war with guerilla tactics. They and their families risked executipn and torture to aid the allies. the french are brave.
Hisory? Seriously?
I don’t always make memes.
But when I do I accidently the interent
So much le butthurt here.
“Why does French history exist?”
Because only idiots and newbs believe the French are terrible at war. The French have been more successful than a great many countries when it comes to war. The only reason they have a bad rap now is because of WW2, which they only lost because they had prepared for an extra hardcore version of WW1.
Le bingo.
Ze Nazis fought in a style so ridiculously unheard of (Blitzkrieg, anyone?) that the french, with their (originally superior) equipment couldn’t handle the German advance.
Extra hardcore WWI 2.0 was expected, but they got WWII entirely.
(we should all know the saying, we prepare for the next war by practicing as if it was for the previous one)
Ah i get it now, that is why the U.S. attempts to never avoid shooting and someone now days in some part of the world.
blitzkrieg is just german for world war it’s not a fighting style (yeah i had german), their tactics were superior but ALSO their equipment was of a very good quality.
btw after WWI (almost) no one wanted anything like that again, when Hitler explained his plans to the heads of the army they all refused and that is why he took all control.
and it’s because of WWI that the french refused fighting cause they were tired of all the fighting.
Dear Blasfemator,
Blitzkrieg means “Guerre éclair” in french, it could therefore litteraly be transated by “lightning war” in english. It is a tactic which consists in winning the war the quickest way possible by moving fast into lands go get to the capital.
Therefore when you’re not sure about something, don’t say it, go open a dictionnary or a History book instead of looking like a pr*ck.
Yours Sincerely
A french guy
B.C. history and battles are far more interesting reads.
B.C.E.
You are now corrected
B.C. is still relevant.
Okay, I think it’s time for a quick history lesson, France started around the end of the 5th century when the Frankish King Clovis I unified gaul after he defeated the romans. France exerted its domination for many years and reach it fullest extend under Charlemagne (around 800). History goes on, a few battles occure but globally, France keeps its integrity until mid 14th century when they started getting on the nerves of England, the tensions growing, the hundred years war started but in the end, France won. Then it was time to think about starting the Renaissance, as it was an intelectual movement, not many big battles occured so we continue to 1776 (this date should ring a bell to all Americans). That’s right, France helped America getting its independance (something all Americans shouldn’t forget). Inspired by the American revolution, the French people thought it was time for them to get democracy (BTW, Americans did not invented democracy, Greeks did, I often heard American take the credit for it, but they are wrong). Anyway in 1789, French get democracy. In 1804, a Corsican guy Napoleon Bonaparte made his was to become the emperor. After extending France all the way to Hungary. But the guy went crazy and he was kicked out of the country in 1815 after a serie of defeats. Then we go to 1870, France start a war against Germany and kick their asses. Germany wants its revenge and start a new war in 1914 but France kicked their asses again with, I admit it the help of America but also England and Italy. Now to the part American love: WWII, it’s true France was invaded by Germany but you must take into account the resistance, the help of England and also the victories of USSR; it’s true that Americans helped but we could have make it without them. After that, there is only one last war we have to talk about: the war of Indochina. Indochina is a former colony of France which got its independance in 1954 after a bloody war. It’s true France lost this war but later, Indochina became Viet-nam, I’m pretty sure all Americans know about this country…
In conclusion, France won many battles before America even existed and WWI and WWII could have been won without the help of America. France may have against Indochina but America did too and a few other battles were lost but which country hadn’t?
(I know a few words are missing here and there but I think you can get the message)
Merci, cher compatriote (ou sympathisant).
Cela dit, vous avez omis de parlez du Roi Soleil, Louis XIV, qui avait imposé, en son temps, le Français comme langue internationale en Europe…
*That said, you forgot to mention king Louis XIV, whom had made French international language during the 17th century (just like English nowadays).
Well i agree with most of what he said but i just want to correct one thing : in 1870 it’s the german who “kicked our asses”, which lead later to WWI
“Then we go to 1870, France start a war against Germany and kick their asses.”
Wait, what? Greetings from the former Elsass-Lothringen Reichsland.
France kicked Germany’s ass and then gave germans a region, just so that they don’t feel bad about losing.
Yep, we are that cool.
because they won battles when they were actually cool
If by they, you mean battles, then ^this
Allies won WWII. They are part of the victors, although they capitulated in the begining of war.
Learn history before making history meme jokes.
we remember the bad times and our victories so we have something to rub into our enemies and make sure we dont make same noob mistakes as them
LA FRANCE A GAGNÉ DES GUERRES !
let me tell you guys something, the country that entered Berlin first, and who gave them the strongest blow was the U.S.S.R., not france, nor England or the U.S.
You Americans should be nicer to the French or else they’re going to take the Statue of Liberty back.
We still here too ._.
HISORY?!?!?!
The first history is spelt wrong numptie
*Poland
This is really dumb. Fortunately there are people to remind that Frenchies won wwI… AND wwII.
Uploader : “McLean, Virginia”
Oh, so that’s not a cliché, usa inhabitants do suck at history.
Btw, remember about USA independance war ? Who the hell did help them out ?
Kthxbaï
Nobody else realize “history” is spelled wrong?
Y U NO LEARN TO SPELL BEFORE POSTING MEME!?
love how, yet again, any mention of nationality devolves into an argument, with the subject of stereotypes of Americans and how unfair they are at the centre of it all. Relating to the post though, Dude forget Napoleon and the french revolution. Forget Hastings if you want to class Normans as technically German. The fact remains, after the Roman empire receded, from the 5th to 11th century ‘Frankia’ domain of the Gauls was the most successful warring nation in Europe. It was acknowledged that they produced the best quality weapons in the world, and had the best armies.
Before you do anything. Learn how to spell “History”
“Hisory”? Really, Philosoraptor?
Looks like someone spelt history wrong.
WTF IF USA HELPED france it’s because french pepole are a very nce people, sorry for my speaking, i’m drunk, BUT STFU FRANCE IS TTHHEE Country, come here i ‘ll welcom you wazaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
well look at the history of Hungary..
The magyars were actually fearsome warriors during the end of the migration period and the medieval era, so no.
Also they served as a bullet shield for the rest of Europe since the 1000s, they were constantly fighting entire empires without any help from west
Why y no make fun of Italie? They lost against the french in ww2, AFTER the german beat the french. That is a big bag of fail nobody talks about.
He spelled history wrong!
he liek datt hiesterory
Stopped reading at “hisory.”
I love how “history” is related to you as “winning wars”. As If there was just that.
We the French have a richer culture and history than mostly any other nation, tied with England maybe.
And yeah, we’re also not so bad at warring.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard approves.
Captain Jean-Jaques Lucas approves (Commander of the ship that killed Nelson. Suck it)
Portugal begs to disagree that you have a richer history.
You forgot Germany. Germany definitely has as much culture and history as UK and France has. Just think about the Anglo-Saxons who kind of founded England.
Let us not forget Charles Martel, the Hammer of Christendom who halted Islamic expansion into Europe for centuries, his grandson, the slightly famous Charlemagne, who created the first great European empire since the fall of Rome, and the Sun King himself, Louis XIV.
France won the American Revolution.
The French Revolution. nuff’ said.
germans invented the nuke…not america…
What about Napoleon? He was making France look good for a while.
At least France has been more successful than Spain.
The French should’ve left you in your mess during the Revolutionary war, at least nowadays you wouldn’t be the arrogant and ignorant jerks that lose wars they start in poor countries armed with sticks and stones, but cultured and respectful heirs of the British.
Americans should have left you in your mess in WWII. Nowadays you’d either not exist or you’d be living under fascism or communism. Instead of being ignorant and arrogant jerks that depend on America for everything yet simultaneously, fiendishly bash the US for your own faults that you have in greater abundance.
That’s quite ignorant and racist. 0/5
Fighting about history on memebase,really? This website is meant for jokes, no matter how wrong they may be. Lighten up, you will never win an argument on this website, no matter how correct you may be.
Ahem. Excuse me, but if I may say a word – to be fair: the French have fought about 170 major wars and won 109 of them. That’s pretty good. They aren’t cowards just because they didn’t want to join the US in Iraq and Afghanistan – they were kind of right about those wars, in retrospect.
Indeed they were. Old Europe, eh? It’s still in good shape, maybe old but wise too.
I am half French and I highly thank you for this.
You mean we were ABSOLUTLY right. Still, we’re in Afghanistan. That’s just in Iraq that we didn’t join, the only good thing our former president Chirac did good for our country.
The reason they loose is because they are drunk, worthless cowards who stabs people in the back. France has never won a single war, they’ve always had support from someone else.
France should burn.
great troll!
Indeed…
I just have to really, really take exception to the comment(s) that France won World War 1 ….. I couldn’t care less about the rest of the arguments…but am pretty sure the 1.2 million British, ANZAC, Canadian and other British Empire soldiers killed in action defending France would be less than thrilled. Jebus, even the Russians had more casualties than the French.
No soldier is ever more or less than his enemy. His bravery is in fighting for his country regardless of his side. Wars are lost by politicians, inept leadership and planning. Not the brave man on the frontline, doing his duty.
While we are at it, the French basically gifted the American’s their liberty as a “f*ck you” to their perennial enemy, the British. Without them, y’all would be Australian.
How were you meant to not “win” WW2 u were on both fuckin sides french=trolls
Still, better to be French then not have history whatsoever.
U MAD USA?
Lololol ^THIS! I find it funny how people from a country with barely any history at all (apart from that of the native population whom their ancestors slaughtered on a massive scale) think they can lecture other nations with an actual history reaching back thousands of years.
In our short history we’ve accomplished more than any European country. We landed a man on the moon (the single greatest feat of our species) when Europe still struggled to feed itself.
Excuse me, land a man on the room?
Britain -
Evolution (But you woudnt know anything about that american)
First to abolish slavary.
Worlds largest empire
First Modern Democracy
Defeated France and spain when they were at the heights of the their power, despite being a much smaller country. (Britain still respects them both for honourable nations, unlike USA.
Plus America is well…’Merica.
Go teach creationalism in science. Lawl.
Go invade cuba because your own ship blew up because of crappy cordite. Go invade another bunch of third world countries.
Even the Chinies and Japanse are more respectable. You landed a man on the moon 40 years ago, what other great scientific things have you done since then.
PS Steven Hawkin, Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins,
To you’re Snookie and friends, twilight.
Nice language aswell USA, looks familier.
Spanish*, I beg your pardon.
whatabout the norman conquest? that seemed like a big up for france. of course, the normans, two generations before, were just vikings that thought french ladies smelled pretty. so ultimately it was the vikings that took over england.
Why does America think its allowed to make fun of France anyways? Only the British and the Germans can do that
How do you know the author is American?
By the way, living in America, I rarely see anyone making fun of the French.
check his/her profile. It says Virginia
I’m french and i’m 17.
When i was in America 1 year ago i heard “french = pussies” jokes everyday…
do you know anything about french revolution or how huge was the french empire ?! Google it
Under Napoleon? The first time after the whole operation came crashing down, or the second time?
Remember, remember the 4th Of January…
If Memebase is supposed to be funny and not the endless insulting crap it is,
why do people still visit it?
History is written by the Victor is still relevant.
If Nazi Germany Prevailed, and tok over the world, they would think of themselves as fighting for the Great and Powerful Fatherland, and think the extermination of the Jews was necessary, and we probably would be too.
Because Napoleon.
quand on sait que les immigrants Américains ont exterminés tout un peuple pour prendre possession de leur terres, je crois qu’on a pas son mot à dire point de vue histoire du pays… Pauvre Pocahontas
It was written by the victors about France?
This.
Submitter should have said, “why are there French historians?” or something to that effect.
Scumbag USA:
Calls french people losers.
Can’t speak “history” correctly.
Scumbag USA:
Say France is not a winner.
Can’t speak “history” correctly.
Agreed, but still:
Scumbag lucasaug: Can’t spell “Spell” correctly
“Hisory”
Your argument is invalid.
…and why is there a black history month?
Wah 300 comments. Some faith in humanity has been restored.
not all historys ment to be victorious, its ment to show what happened in the past…. for example right now im learning about the great depression.. there wasnt really any victory there
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This is a seriousness shield. Everyone under this shield will not take the joke too seriously!
Because historical events like the French revolution are important? Anti-French resentment in America is terrible these days. The constitution AND the bill of rights owe so much to different French philosophers. French jokes are one of the most tired and boring jokes that one can make.
Also for the record, if you look at WWI you can see France’s involvement in the treaty of Versailles as a victory, since France gained a lot of land from Germany (until Germany took it back).
But yeah, this meme is bad.
How can you be proud about winning wars?
War is bad. Everybody loses with war.
France is the reason western society still thrives (Charlemagne etc.), and France has won a lot of wars, a lot more than U.S. lol.
Because the victors decided to write about French History?
this meme only exists because americans don’t bother learning international history and only focuses on their own country until like gr 12
“Because we’re french” :smokes a cigarette: …or so said Robin Williams
France got one of the best K/D/A in european history (mostly middle-age renaissance), something like 60%.
But it’s true that the Great Nation is declining since the beginning of the twentieth century. Fun fact, right when they allied Great Britain in the Entente Cordiale.
And in the mainframe of the US history, one century is huge i can understand
^ +100
Yo Western Civilization, I’m gonna let you finish, but the Ottoman Empire was the best empire ever.
Hello turk. Ama let you finish, but turn around at Romania. LOL ROMANIA.
numa numa…
America, Y U so bad at knowing history? Does Napoleon sounds familiar to you?
This debate…
About what people say of French revolution, the french revolutionnary army successfully defend their country against both royalist civilizns armies and professional armies from all Europe.
As for Frenches fighting Frenches I’ll just quote Plato: “The first and best victory is to conquer self!”
French revolution sure went wrong because of the seriously precarious situation of the country and the total unstability of something as new and unexplored as a democratic parlementary state in 1789.
For those who say Napoleon wasn’t French, I’ll just that by that logic Americans aren’t Americans apart from the native ones.
He grew up, lived and served France and became it’s first consul before finally becoming it’s Emperor. He himself was a great patriot in France, some would say a nationalist.
Now did he lose? Yes he did. But did he before that conquered all Europe? Yes he did. The Swedens should remember as their royal family from that time on was of French origin. It took the union of armies from all Europe to defeat him but whatever…
Anyone remember a dude named Charlemagne? If no I wonder if it’s even worth discussing it.
Passing on the various victories of Middle Age….
World War 1?
People seem to forget that France was up against 2 empires united. The two biggest terrestrial war machines in Europe at that.
Worl War 2?
Tru defeat and humiliating at that. Then again it was provoked by a totally incompetent and arrogant leadership. The french secret services were actually aware of the plan Germans had to attack from the North though the forest of Ardennes, but French HQ ignore it because they considered it was impossible to come through there because of the incredibly muddy grounds and that even secret services had detailed Germans plan to overcome that problem, and when things turn out wrong, they just sold France out.
NOW ONE IMPORTANT THING TO UNDERSTAND FRENCH HISTORY!
Just look at the location. When you look at UK you see an island that cannot be assaulted any other way than by sea on war ships, and getting enough boats to fit an entire army into is nearly impossible. Not to mention whoever would try would have to face UKs float and who is more experienced in Naval Battles that the inhabitants of an island that makes use of boats in every singleconflict.
Now when you look at France, what do you have? A lump of ordinary land with no particular strategical advantages AND THAT HAPPENS TO BE TRAPPED JUST IN THE CROSSROAD OF ALL THE POWERFUL NATIONS OF EUROPE.
Now I know caplocks don’t help making my point but it’s here to attract the eye of those who won’t have read the rest of the text because of tl;dr.
Certainly, the United States have won more wars than France.
Certainly, the American Constitution wasn’t at all inspired by French (and German) philosophers and revolutionary ideas.
Certainly, American territory is bigger than the First French Empire ever was.
I’m all about making racist jokes, but I think it’s funnier when the facts are actually somewhat approaching reality.
U.S.A hasn’t won much wars without help.
The american constitution was an updated version of the magna carta.
Most of U.s.a is pretty much uninhabitable and wasnt conquered. Whereas Napoleon conquered the most powerful countries in the world.
U.S.A is one massively glorified plain of shopping malls and propaganda.
To this day Europe is the real superpower, if we wanted to the U.K could defeat you in a war because of the sheer number of allies; Commonwealth, e.u and therefore most U.N countries. Don’t kid yourself, you are just one massive under magistrated rock
what is hisory? we’re talking about history?
At least the French can pull a heist off where as Americans couldn’t even rob one person for the MW3 copy.
French history (as what is told in French schools) IS written by the winners.
It is a gloryfied nation-building nonsense that focusses exclusively on the ego-striking of the French language and culture and largely ignores everything about other native cultures and languages of France. They even made-up a word to avoid naming other languages while insulting them. Everything but French is called ”patois”, gibberish.
I don’t write History.
I am the 1%.
..*insert hetalia joke here* well,maybe I can insert something else,no?
*facepalm* (doesn’t care how late this is) GO AWAY FRANCE!
Cause the eventually won, despite it being against themselves.