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i think that we all, you know, appreciate the “france loves his fucking wine” jokes, but studying french history i’m just constantly being reminded “you don’t even know the half of it”.

the sheer amount of times i run into quotes where french people literally define what it means to be french as drinking a shitload of wine

the lengths of exploitation that france has undertaken just to ensure that even the poorest citizens can have their 3 liters of wine a day

the fact that france had a temperance movement that was contemporaneous with the temperance movements in the us & the uk except it was totally different & they were like “don’t drink hard liquor but drinking 3+ bottles of wine a day is totally fine that doesn’t count”

the number of times that france had a pretty damn great military but was too busy being a wino to actually compete against prussian officers

like calm down france, we get it, you bleed wine