# French Products **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 23, 2003, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-products/163547 "2003-03-23T12:29:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ticker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@ticker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ticker)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-products/163547/41 "2003-03-24T15:41:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Celyn \* > \*\*Actually, I don’t suppose anyone would much mind not being allowed to read Proust, but philosophy studens might just want to read Sartre, for instance. \*\* Or [Asterix](http://www.asterix.tm.fr) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-products/163547/42 "2003-03-24T16:12:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by galen \* > \*\*Americans who bash the French are about as ignorant as it gets. These are the people who “learn” everything they “know” from the boob tube, which is nothing but a conduit for the vilest propaganda. > > Known worldwide as a very ignorant people, they should get away from the tube and start reading some serious history. They could then stop believing the fairy tale that the US saved the French in the World Wars. It simply didn’t happen that way. > > I can hear the howls of indignation now: “My grandfather died in the battle of the bulge!” Maybe so, but the Nazis were finished by then anyhow. > > \*\* So what if Grandpa had died on the beach on June 6, 1944? Or fighting in the hedgerows? Or flying bombers in 1942/43? You can’t make the arguement that the Nazis were finished at that point. :wally The bottom line is lots of American boys did die to liberate France. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-products/163547.md?page=2)