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over The years in various places on holiday in France, we have seen loads of stuff about the resistance in France - in the South, around the Dordogne, in Eastern France, in Alsace, in Lot et Garonne. Proud and brave! one of my literary and philosophical heroes, Albert Camus, was active in the...

Seeing as it was me (I think) who raised the question of 1066, I am well aware of the Norsemen thing. Corsica is French, and was when Napoleon was around, and he was a French military man and leader.

Maybe it was all carefully planned? Then again, maybe not. but whatever, the Normans made their presence felt in the aftermath…..

We were in 1066. Napoleon gave us a bit of a runaround. and despite their reputation as surrender monkeys in WW2, there were some well ‘ard bar stewards involved in theFrenchResistance all over the country.