# Ten reasons to love the French. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 13, 2003, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-reasons-to-love-the-french/161171 "2003-03-13T20:36:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-reasons-to-love-the-french/161171/1 "2003-03-13T20:36:41Z")
Just thought that I would pass [this](http://www.idlewords.com/) along, in light of the silly anti-French sentiments that are swirling around of late. Note that this is one of those Bloggy Journal type thingies, so link may not work forever. that That is all. ---
**Author:** ![Davebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Davebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Davebear)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-reasons-to-love-the-french/161171/2 "2003-03-13T21:18:11Z")
Mostly pretty good reasons, too. Although, I think of them more are reasons to admire, rather than love, the French. ---
**Author:** ![Mooney252](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7c8e57/32.png) [@Mooney252](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mooney252)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-reasons-to-love-the-french/161171/3 "2003-03-13T22:11:33Z")
The United States would not have won the Revolutionary War. See Yorktown and other references. ---
**Author:** ![Merseybeat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c89c15/32.png) [@Merseybeat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merseybeat)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-reasons-to-love-the-french/161171/4 "2003-03-13T22:50:13Z")
Gotta argue with “The Food”. Horrible cheese, undercooked meat. And they export those dreadful “Golden Delicious” apples. The bread’s ok I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![Tuco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tuco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuco)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-reasons-to-love-the-french/161171/5 "2003-03-13T22:57:05Z")
This [double post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=169426) thing is getting [ridicolous](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=169431). My views are in the second link. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-reasons-to-love-the-french/161171/6 "2003-03-14T02:06:51Z")
Cheese deserves its own number. Yay Fromage! ---
**Author:** ![Zap\_Rowsdower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3da27b/32.png) [@Zap\_Rowsdower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zap_Rowsdower)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-reasons-to-love-the-french/161171/7 "2003-03-14T02:49:55Z")
Don’t forget Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau. ---
**Author:** ![JonScribe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3be4f8/32.png) [@JonScribe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JonScribe)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-reasons-to-love-the-french/161171/8 "2003-03-14T03:46:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Merseybeat \* > \*\*Gotta argue with “The Food”. Horrible cheese, undercooked meat. > > And they export those dreadful “Golden Delicious” apples. > > The bread’s ok I suppose. \*\* Are we being whooshed? A Brit dissing French cuisine? ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-reasons-to-love-the-french/161171/9 "2003-03-14T03:51:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zap\_Rowsdower \* > \*\*Don’t forget Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau. \*\* And the equally notable Jacques Cousteau… I can still hear his distinctive voice now: zee great white shark iz zee most playful of all ze sea creatures. ---
**Author:** ![Kayeby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@Kayeby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kayeby)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-reasons-to-love-the-french/161171/10 "2003-03-14T04:11:03Z")
Why I love the French … 1. They have whole stores … devoted to _cheese!_ 2. They have Lipton’s Ice Tea in 1 litre bottles 3. Louis Vuitton 4. When you translate “toe” into French, it means "foot finger ---
**Author:** ![TitoBenito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2acd7d/32.png) [@TitoBenito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TitoBenito)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-reasons-to-love-the-french/161171/11 "2003-03-14T08:31:23Z")
1. Discovered a way to keep milk longer and safer. mmm milk. too bad I’m lactos intolerant. 2. Charles Martel making sure those pesky muslims stayed out western Europe. 3. Nasal sounds are really fun. 4. Great bread. 5. Parisians are much nicer than Frankfurters. 6. Mequess Ingliche spelling simme les etupid. 7. A main source of all things kinky. 8. 35 hour work week sounds very nice. 9. Getting us involved in wars (1812, WWI, WWII, Vietnam), thus providing us with unlimited material for movies. 10. You don’t even need cable to watch porn on TV!!! ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-reasons-to-love-the-french/161171/12 "2003-03-14T15:30:28Z")
1. The Fries 2. The toast 3. Movies 4. The accent 5. The tickler 6. The Wine 7. The Louvre 8. The Bread 9. The Eiffel Tower 10. The kiss ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-reasons-to-love-the-french/161171/13 "2003-03-14T16:33:30Z")
Well, they produced Michel de Montaigne, Claude Debussy and Rabelais… so they can’t be all bad. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-reasons-to-love-the-french/161171/14 "2003-03-14T17:12:49Z")
Paris. What a city. Beautiful(amazingly so IMO) and it’s without question the best smelling city I’ve have ever been too. Clean too. Vive la France ---
**Author:** ![Banger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@Banger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banger)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-reasons-to-love-the-french/161171/15 "2003-03-14T17:29:31Z")
Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas, among others 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Leifsmama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a698b9/32.png) [@Leifsmama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leifsmama)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-reasons-to-love-the-french/161171/16 "2003-03-14T18:06:19Z")
I’ll second the gracious host thing. I’ve always been recieved with open arms by the French. And the cheese And the wine And a beautiful arrangment of priorities-families first, jobs for people, not just to make money. Money is not the main drive of anything in France. It’s very refreshing. 2 hour lunches, 5 weeks of vacation, maternity leave. Amazing art–Rodin, Monet, Renoir Without France, the movie Casablanca would have been impossible God, YES! The TGV is one of the most wonderful ways to travel in the world! And dare I say it, one of the most beatiful languages spoken today. OK, yes, I’m a Francophile. I admit it. ---
**Author:** ![WavyDavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3da27b/32.png) [@WavyDavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WavyDavy)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-reasons-to-love-the-french/161171/17 "2003-03-14T18:07:08Z")
I’ll agree with **Yojimbo** about Paris. I was there three weeks ago for the first time and the city was stunning. Also, the food was excellent, and everyone was very gracious to us. (I was there with my wife and three children.) No one was rude at all. I hope to return some day. ---
**Author:** ![cheepdogg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed8c4c/32.png) [@cheepdogg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cheepdogg)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ten-reasons-to-love-the-french/161171/18 "2003-03-14T20:47:55Z")
Don’t forget The Statue of Liberty