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No one could have predicted the horrors about to befall France in the 20th century...the bloom of her youth destroyed on the battlefields of the First World War
by newbie12 14y ago
No one could have predicted the horrors about to befall France in the 20th century...the bloom of her youth destroyed on the battlefields of the First World War, followed economic depression and then defeat and occupation by the Nazis. In many ways, the French nation died and never made it to 2000.
- Wilya 14y agoWe're doing fine, thank you.
- gaius 14y agoOn the how-manyth Republique, I think he means. "France" has been reconstituted (forgive the pun) since then.
- zalew 14y agoExcept imperializing half of the world, being a member of G8, a nuclear superpower, and leader in a few major industries. Sending you kind greetings from the champion country in getting screwed over in the last centuries.
- m0th87 14y agoI think OP was trying to remark that France now is nothing like the France the artist drew from in 1900. Which is true, but it's also true of every place on the planet. This speaks more to the resiliency of nations than anything else.
- zalew 14y agoNo place in Europe is now like it were in the 1900s, but France's Paris is pretty damn close ;)
- coldarchon 14y agoBut the economic depression didn't follow the occupation of the Nazis, it had already been there for 2 decades.
- andyjohnson0 14y agoStrange. Have you ever been to France?
- excuse-me 14y agoNo one in 19C France could possibly imagine huge numbers of French soldiers dying on the march back from defeat in a war across Europe? I suspect that what no one in 1900 could imagine was that we HAVEN'T had a war in europe for the last 75 years
- DanBC 14y agoIt would be interesting to read French "alternative history" science fiction about the France that could have been, rather than the France that is.
- IvarTJ 14y agoFrance has been by far luckier than Poland.
- zalew 14y agohistorically, we have a tradition of being shit out of luck.