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In every sense of the word. Most of it bad, when it comes to their electoral politics, they're incredibly crooked even by French standards, and I prefer not to take too close a look in their business dealings lest I can't ever sleep again. They do make some nice-looking gear.

Neither would treating France that way, as de Gaulle constantly reminded people, albeit in his inimitable manner, and yet there we are.

It was just the Armée Secrète, at the time. Which at least does not involve bad grammar because OAS actually needs a DE in there, it just also needs a L'. Bad grammar and stealing the names of once-proud symbols of Frenchness: hobbies of the far-right, see also Front National.

I think it actually occurs after the first chapter, and Darlan is arrested rather than assassinated and this spirals.

You'll understand why I don't like two of your posts. I think I'm physically incapable of it. My grandfather is probably in there. Oh, you absolute bastard. Minor quibble here: the name was in use, but didn't come to designate the European population in Algeria and then back in France...

In absolute numbers, certainly, but I meant the relative rate of casualties as compared both to the Western Entente and Russia: France just isn't bleeding enough to be pushed out of the war and even a successful Verdun 'bleed-them-white' strategy probably wouldn't be worth it. So that leaves...

Those numbers don't seem sustainable for Germany even in the medium run with so many fewer French casualties and a larger manpower pool to draw on thanks to Mangin's energetic recruitment. But I dread to think what the French generals will consider acceptable losses in 1915 for whichever...

aaaaaaaaaa no what are those things you make me feel inside

And so mission creep begins.

Hihihihihihi. Cheeky. The Long War is an interesting name. It sounds like it won't actually last more than a generation or two, three at the outside. If I had to wager why, I'd say a different succession in England might not provide the impetus for renewed hostilities in the 1410s. Plus...

The issue is that Richelieu is not making exactly brand new policy by invoking "Raison d'état" (not realpolitik although they're close): he's merely refining it and defining it clearly when it had been a long-standing French tradition to oppose the Habsburgs, from the moment they became more...

In looking for more details about it, I found out that this is how the de La Poles actually got their start into the aristocracy and later even a chance at being part of the royal family which made for a shockingly fast rise, even if that was eventually cut short. Apparently, lending tens of...

Oh, so that's where the CSA got it from!

No, I think this was a reference to the son of Gaston who burned to death in the Bal des Ardents. If you ask me, fitting for a guy who calls himself Fébus to have a son suffering the fate of Phaeton. Not particularly fair to the lad. But narratively, very fitting.

The Black Prince is going to be king? My, that will have interesting ramifications.

Clay feet, surely? And unlike with the Haber process, there is no ersatz for iron ore.

Not even the most destructive Civil War of the decade, 2/10, wouldn't fire on Fort Sumter again.

That's him being a colossal tool again, and that won't be the last of it.

Gustav III could buy St Barth a bit ahead of schedule and settle them there.

I've never seen you looking so riotey as you did tonight I've never seen Westminster burn so bright I've never seen so many men ask you how it is you vote They're looking for a little input, fight with a ballot And I have never seen that flag you're waving Or the flashes of the guns that catch...