[Taristin]

*wonders how different the world would be if that ship that sunk all those years ago hadn't, and the money would have been paid for France to rule England*

I think that's how it went anyway. I was only half paying attention to it at the time it was on TV...

[aldo_14]

Apparently, during WW2 Churchill offered to merge the countries of France and Britain in order to try and stop the French government surrendering to the Germans.  He was, obviously, turned down.

[Corsair]

Originally posted by Grey Wolf 2009
They've had fairly poor luck since the Franco-Prussian War. Quite possibly because for a while there they had a notoriously unstable government, changing a rather large amount of times in a very small time period. I'm not referring to the period surrounding the French Revolution, but a period after when there was rapidly changing coalition governments.

They had a fairly unstable government from the 1871-1914 (between the Franco-Prussian War and WWI) and then from 1918-1940 they went through something like 50 governments, I believe.
How the hell do you run a country like that?

[HotSnoJ]

Originally posted by Corsair

How the hell do you run a country like that?

You don't.

[TopAce]

Originally posted by Corsair

They had a fairly unstable government from the 1871-1914 (between the Franco-Prussian War and WWI) and then from 1918-1940 they went through something like 50 governments, I believe.
How the hell do you run a country like that?

But they deliberated themselves on their own in World War II. Who needs a government?