Times were different, it's hard to understand how people really felt unless you have been subjected to something similar under similar circumstances. But since

Times were different, it's hard to understand how people really felt unless you have been subjected to something similar under similar circumstances. But since you brought it up, do you think that the way the French behaved back then, is in any way still indicative of their behavior today? Is the same culture so to speak, still relevant, breathing and alive? What survives of the peoples zeitgeist through centuries? What is relevant to bring up, and what is just history?