10 things the french have given the world.

Olivier Martinez... 8O

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Mmm, mmmmmmmmmmmm!
 
- Jacques Cousteau (one of the biggest personalities in History)
- Napoleon Bonaparte's imperialistic mind
- Many gallicisms
- Citroën, Peugeot, Renault
- Nestlé and Danone?? not sure.
- Miss Kittin & The Hacker
- French cuisine
- Carrefour, Auchamp, FNAC
...
 
Nuclear testing in the south pacific
stupid facial gestures usually accompanied by a "gallic shrug"
snails
frogs legs
Marcel Marceau
Ullsyes (the cartoon)
Sacha Distelle
Johnny Halliday
Tour D France
Gateaux Paris-Brest
Creme Chantille
Toulouse Latrec
The Can-Can
Coco Chanel
perrier
Volvic
 
Curtiss, if you are going to be 'cute' and try to write in French, at least get your grammar correct, s'il te plaît.

The French are perhaps at times "stupides" but at least they're not stupid enough to live in North East England!
 
Tycoon said:
French letters

French toast

The Metric System

and roughly half of the words in the English language!
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:lol:

yeah the other 50% (and most of our swear words) came from scandinavia ;)
 
pate de fois grois
garlic
kickers
lacoste
calvados
benedictine
golden delicious
air traffic disputes
sheep burning
intimidation of lorry drivers
madame guiilotine
 
- Parfum
- ménage à trois
- Le Louvre
- a shameful defeat in the World Cup 1998
- Voltaire
- Molière
- Rimbault
- Marie Antoinette
- La Révolution Française
- Descartes
- La Fontaine
- Abelard et Héloïse
- Nôtredame
- Sainte Thérèse de Lisieux
- Sainte Jeane D'Arc
- Rocquefort, Camembert, Chèvre (et tous les fromages)
- DIOR
- Lévi-Strauss
The list is endless...
 
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