French gov't admits as many as 3000 deaths from heat...

Xon · Post by **Xon** » 2003-08-17 04:47pm

Darth Wong wrote:
Dark Hellion wrote:How has france survived 200 years. I have trouble thinking they could survive a cigarrete shortage, let alone wars desease and famine.
The France of today is quite a bit different than the France of Napoleon's time. Perhaps their heavy losses in WW1 drastically changed their cultural outlook.

I think it was the combined reaming they got from WW1 & WW2. It was less than a quater of a century between the 2 World wars, that at least 2 generations who would have been involved in the war. Let alone the rebiulding.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-08-17 05:12pm

Darth Wong wrote: The France of today is quite a bit different than the France of Napoleon's time. Perhaps their heavy losses in WW1 drastically changed their cultural outlook.

By the end of that war France had 1.39 million dead and an additional 4.26 million wounded. This does not included the two hundred thousand odd missing in action. The French mobilzed 8.4 million men during the war, thats 67% casualties. The French population never recovered from this and WW2 made it all the worse with the nations population declining something like 1.5 million in four years. It is not remotely surprising that the nations culture changed considerably after this. Really it changed in all major nations involved in the war except the US which suffered only about 100,000 dead.

Post by **weemadando** » 2003-08-19 11:28pm

MKSheppard wrote:
weemadando wrote: Actually, they taught the Americans that one. The simple fact however is, that shooting 75% of your nations youth is always a bad move.
Problem is, A few rioters doesn't = 75% of your youth :twisted:

Look up the French protests and protestors from the 60's. Particularly le paveurs.