“Philippe also brought along musicians - mainly trumpeters and drummers - to scare the enemy. Even then, French music was known to terrify the English.” — Stephen Clarke Copy Share Image
“This is a very French trait. Today, if a big manufacturing company is in trouble, it will parachute in a graduate of one of… — Stephen Clarke Copy Share Image
“When a Quebecker is interviewed for French TV, he or she is often subtitled in ‘normal’ French, as if the language they speak in… — Stephen Clarke Copy Share Image
“If they wanted their shit stirred, then stirred their shit was jolly well going to be.” — Stephen Clarke Copy Share Image
“In French eyes, it was of course doubly wrong to execute a beautiful woman.” — Stephen Clarke Copy Share Image
“it must have been hard making a silent movie about a girl who hears voices.)” — Stephen Clarke Copy Share Image
“Philippe also brought along musicians - mainly trumpeters and drummers - to scare the enemy. Even then, French music was known to terrify the… — Stephen Clarke Copy Share Image
“Tanacharison (who could relate to the cow because he claimed that the French had boiled and eaten his father),” — Stephen Clarke Copy Share Image
“This is of course the Prince of Wales’s motto to this day, though subsequent princes have not adopted John of Bohemia’s custom of fighting… — Stephen Clarke Copy Share Image
“There is a class of tourists who never seem to see the things they're visiting, I thought. They prefer to look at directions to… — Stephen Clarke Copy Share Image
“The Frenchmen tried to explain that sexual intercourse between males was taboo (despite anything the Brits might have told them about French sailors),” — Stephen Clarke Copy Share Image
