I remember when Charles {re dacted} initiated [redacted} of grandeur and France pulled out of {redacted} and complained of exorbitant privilege, sent french ships to pick up their physical gold from the [redacted} treasury and began a long and permanent slide of the {redacted} dollar because this un-named country went off the gold standard.
Fraawnce, and Gay Paree (not that there's anything wrong with that) --where they eat snails and openly pee in the streets. (family member been there--saw it--even the women did it) Perhaps someday, they will get over the fact that they failed miserably in back to back world wars, failed in building of the Panama Canal, and the {redacted} had to bail them out of all 3 and show them how it's done. Someday--but not in any of our lifetimes.
(Don't get me started on Fraawnce's complicity with Germany in forming the {redacted}, primarily for the purpose of {redacted redacted redacted redacted redacted. That's the thanks we get for {redacted redacted redacted redacted redacted redacted redacted, etc etc etc} at the end of ww2)
I hate tho, that they were attacked in such a cowardly way, and I am saddened by the loss of life, and pray for those now in hospital.