Sgt. Stryker's daily briefing talks about another debt that we owe to France--not the France of Petain, Laval, the Dreyfus Prosection, and Action Francaise, but the France of Lafayette, de Gaulle, and M. Pierre Mathy:
Posted by DeLong at February 22, 2003 06:51 AM | TrackBackSgt. Stryker's Daily Briefing: February 16, 2003 - February 22, 2003 Archives: Being of mostly British descent, bashing the froggies should come come easily to me, but I'm going to sit this one out.... I'll forgo play-ground level abuse of the citizens who elected [Chirac]. My family owes a small debt to M. Pierre Mathy. He's not anyone you'd know about, and he died a few years ago, but he owned and ran a little hotel-restaurant in a pretty little town called Toul...