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FJR919
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Don't forget Michelin tires. They have manufacturing plants around the world but the company is French. <_<
Geezer
Parsimonious Curmudgeon
wine
MikeYork5
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BO
Snails in garlic butter (Yum!), lingerie as an art form, ta ra ra BOOM de aye!, Discovery of the Rosetta stone, and the guillotine......
berets and heads off to the French!
berets and heads off to the French!
Dwavey
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Topless beaches and Abysinthe...
NoCage
formerly SouthernFJR
White flags. 
TheAxeman
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radman
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OrangevaleFJR
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The oldest discovery of wine dates to 5400 BC in Iran and wine is believed to be a human discovery, during the overlapping Neolithic period.
Cheese is first mentioned in literature (Homer) as being made by the Summerians. The Romans (Italians) are credited with raising cheese making to an art form.
Liberty - It began in Greece. Specificaly Athens. It was lost. It came back to us via religious liberty first ennunciated by Luther and taken up by Lutheranism and Calvinism. Calvinism, of course, was spread to the colonies because of the oppression by the English Monarch and the Roman Catholic Church. France certainly was an effective tool to allow the US to win its revolution, but the fact remains that France remained a monarchy well past the time that the US rejected it. The notion of religious liberty spread to that of governmental rule and the US is widely credited with spreading liberty. However, one might look to New Zealand as being true pioneers in this area as well. The French did not bring us liberty except through their armies and weapons, for which we can thank them heartily. Being a tool used to bring forward a new form of government is NOT the same as conceiving it. So there.
Now, the gnome liberation front is largest in France...however the origin of the fight against gnome slavery is in question.
The French did find the Rosetta Stone, and a French Linguist did decipher Egyptian heiroglyphs in 1822. However, this was simply a regurgitation of lost knowledge as obviously the authors that wrote the stone in Greek, Coptic and Egyptian already knew how to read all three languages well before the French did.
There are some great French inventions and contributors:
French Inventions
Perhaps most relevant to this forum: the bicycle
However:
American, Sylvester Howard Roper (1823-1896) invented a two-cylinder, steam-engine motorcycle (powered by coal) in 1867. This can be considered the first motorcycle, if you allow your description of a motorcycle to include a steam engine. Howard Roper also invented a steam engine car.
German, Gottlieb Daimler invented the first gas-engined motorcycle in 1885
Origin
The first mention of the usage of white flags to surrender is made during from the Eastern Han dynasty (A.D 25-220). In the Roman Empire, the historian Cornelius Tacitus mentions a white flag of surrender in A.D. 109. Before that time, Roman armies would surrender by holding their shields above their heads. The usage of the white flag has since spread worldwide.
Ancien Régime in France
During the period of the Ancien Régime, in the 18th century, the royal standard of France became a plain white flag, sometimes covered in fleur-de-lis or bearing the ensigns of the Order of the Holy Spirit. The white color was also used as a symbol of military command, by the commanding officer of a French army.
After the French Revolution, in 1794, the Tricolor was adopted as the official flag of France The white flag quickly became a symbol of French royalists. During the Bourbon Restoration period in France, it replaced the Tricolor, seen as a symbol of regicide. The French troops fighting in the American War of Independence fought under the white flag. It was finally abandoned in 1830, with the July Revolution.
In 1873, an attempt to reestablish the monarchy failed because of the refusal of Henri, comte de Chambord to accept the Tricolor. He demanded the return of the white flag before he would accept the throne. French remain the undisputed champions of white flag usage to date.
By the way, as much as teasing the French may be fun, Jaques Cousteau was one of the coolest dudes ever.
Cheese is first mentioned in literature (Homer) as being made by the Summerians. The Romans (Italians) are credited with raising cheese making to an art form.
Liberty - It began in Greece. Specificaly Athens. It was lost. It came back to us via religious liberty first ennunciated by Luther and taken up by Lutheranism and Calvinism. Calvinism, of course, was spread to the colonies because of the oppression by the English Monarch and the Roman Catholic Church. France certainly was an effective tool to allow the US to win its revolution, but the fact remains that France remained a monarchy well past the time that the US rejected it. The notion of religious liberty spread to that of governmental rule and the US is widely credited with spreading liberty. However, one might look to New Zealand as being true pioneers in this area as well. The French did not bring us liberty except through their armies and weapons, for which we can thank them heartily. Being a tool used to bring forward a new form of government is NOT the same as conceiving it. So there.
Now, the gnome liberation front is largest in France...however the origin of the fight against gnome slavery is in question.
The French did find the Rosetta Stone, and a French Linguist did decipher Egyptian heiroglyphs in 1822. However, this was simply a regurgitation of lost knowledge as obviously the authors that wrote the stone in Greek, Coptic and Egyptian already knew how to read all three languages well before the French did.
There are some great French inventions and contributors:
French Inventions
Perhaps most relevant to this forum: the bicycle
However:
American, Sylvester Howard Roper (1823-1896) invented a two-cylinder, steam-engine motorcycle (powered by coal) in 1867. This can be considered the first motorcycle, if you allow your description of a motorcycle to include a steam engine. Howard Roper also invented a steam engine car.
German, Gottlieb Daimler invented the first gas-engined motorcycle in 1885
Origin
The first mention of the usage of white flags to surrender is made during from the Eastern Han dynasty (A.D 25-220). In the Roman Empire, the historian Cornelius Tacitus mentions a white flag of surrender in A.D. 109. Before that time, Roman armies would surrender by holding their shields above their heads. The usage of the white flag has since spread worldwide.
Ancien Régime in France
During the period of the Ancien Régime, in the 18th century, the royal standard of France became a plain white flag, sometimes covered in fleur-de-lis or bearing the ensigns of the Order of the Holy Spirit. The white color was also used as a symbol of military command, by the commanding officer of a French army.
After the French Revolution, in 1794, the Tricolor was adopted as the official flag of France The white flag quickly became a symbol of French royalists. During the Bourbon Restoration period in France, it replaced the Tricolor, seen as a symbol of regicide. The French troops fighting in the American War of Independence fought under the white flag. It was finally abandoned in 1830, with the July Revolution.
In 1873, an attempt to reestablish the monarchy failed because of the refusal of Henri, comte de Chambord to accept the Tricolor. He demanded the return of the white flag before he would accept the throne. French remain the undisputed champions of white flag usage to date.
By the way, as much as teasing the French may be fun, Jaques Cousteau was one of the coolest dudes ever.
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nusman68
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Don't forget their chick-magnet....
keithaba
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I'm guessing you have too much time on your hands, OrangevaleFJR.
Either that or your a historian... in which case, you probably have too much time on your hands....
Either that or your a historian... in which case, you probably have too much time on your hands....
OrangevaleFJR
R.I.P. Our FJR Riding Friend
nah, I just have a fast internet connection. CTRL C, CTRL V.
But history does interest me. yup
