Just when you’re about Frenched out…
…something like this pops up:
“If an American GI wanted to take home a souvenir, I’d say there was nothing reprehensible about that, it’s an act you can easily understand,” said Levisse-Touze, director of a Paris museum with exhibits on the city’s liberation.
and…
French officials have no intention of scolding him: They have only thanks and kind words for him, pointing out that he once risked his life for France.
Yes. Thank you. We would do it again if necessary.
(Read more at SFGate.)
Mitterand or DeGaulle or someone once stated that the US and the French were like an old married couple, always squabbling, in public. But in the end pulling together. Much truth to that.
Toulon is my favorite city in France. What’s yours?