(unknown)

[Derek Broughton]

Master Cougar wrote:

> On 12/14/06, Jan Claeys <lists at janc.be> wrote:
>>
>> Op donderdag 14-12-2006 om 08:00 uur [tijdzone -0200], schreef Hervé
>> Fache:
>> > Reminds me of Général de Gaulle saying "Vive le Québec libre" (Long
>> > live free Quebec) when Canada was just managing to bring everybody
>> > back together. Dangerous humour!
>>
>> I don't know the exact circumstances about de Gaulle's joke(?), but
>> sometimes humour is the best way to make a point.   :-)
> 
> 
>   It was not a joke, Damned de Gaulle was putting his damned nose into
> Canadian politics. In a bout of idiocy he gave support to the Quebecois
> separatist movement.  Imagine if Trudeau had gone to Belgium and
> proclaimed "Vive la Waloonie libre!"

And, as you can see, we still haven't got over this "joke".
-- 
derek