Just for a jest
Things said about France and the French:
'When God created France, he realised that He had gone overboard in creating the most perfect place on Earth. So to balance it out, he created the French people' (Anon)
'The reason French streets have trees planted down both sides is that the Germans like to march in the shade' (Anon)
'We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France' (The Duke of Wellington)
'The French are just useless. They can't organise a p*ss-up in a brewery' (Elton John)