# Charles de Gaulle wanted French-Quebec to separate from Canada! What a hoser! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 18, 2003, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charles-de-gaulle-wanted-french-quebec-to-separate-from-canada-what-a-hoser/155997 "2003-02-18T23:56:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2003, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charles-de-gaulle-wanted-french-quebec-to-separate-from-canada-what-a-hoser/155997/1 "2003-02-18T23:56:51Z")
Another fascinating historical fact I never knew. Wonder if the Canadians are still sore about that? [Around the same time as de Gaulle was encouraging French-speaking Quebec to separate from Canada](http://www.msnbc.com/news/874319.asp?0cl=c1) ---
**Author:** ![MrTuffPaws](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MrTuffPaws](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrTuffPaws)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charles-de-gaulle-wanted-french-quebec-to-separate-from-canada-what-a-hoser/155997/2 "2003-02-19T00:34:46Z")
So. So do most Canadians that I have met. ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charles-de-gaulle-wanted-french-quebec-to-separate-from-canada-what-a-hoser/155997/3 "2003-02-19T01:32:29Z")
Fairly long while ago. I think they’ve somehow managed to get over it. ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charles-de-gaulle-wanted-french-quebec-to-separate-from-canada-what-a-hoser/155997/4 "2003-02-19T04:21:10Z")
Chirac reminds me of an anal Charles de Gaulle (well, okay, more effeminately anal) ---
**Author:** ![syncrolecyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@syncrolecyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/syncrolecyne)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charles-de-gaulle-wanted-french-quebec-to-separate-from-canada-what-a-hoser/155997/5 "2003-02-19T07:24:14Z")
Both of them have harbored weapons of mass destruction within their nose hairs. ---
**Author:** ![djxiii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6f9a4e/32.png) [@djxiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/djxiii)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charles-de-gaulle-wanted-french-quebec-to-separate-from-canada-what-a-hoser/155997/6 "2003-02-19T08:16:07Z")
Bring to mind a joke. three Canadians - a Newfie, a Quebecois and a West Coaster discover a magic lamp and the Genie decides to offer each of them a single wish. The newfie goes first and wishes that there would be a recovery in the fishing shoals of the coast of Labrador. **Granted.** The Quebecois goes next and wishes for a 100 foot plexiglass wall all around Quebec. **Granted.** Finally the BC boy gets to make a wish. He thinks for a bit and then asks the genie if the wall around Quebec is very strong. **Indestructible!** 100 feet tall? Solid? Nothing could get through it? Not even water? **not a thing!** well… Fill’er up then. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/charles-de-gaulle-wanted-french-quebec-to-separate-from-canada-what-a-hoser/155997/7 "2003-02-19T15:55:52Z")
**djxiiiiiii** , Why would you turn Quebec into another BC? 😃 Actually, I just popped in here, because the thread directly below this one was Things everyone else knew but you didn’t.