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Re: Why do the French not have a day for Napoleon?
« Reply #30 on: November 22, 2017, 01:02:26 am »
Don't be such a soyboy, Toffee. The world's population consists of more than just the Dutch and French, who aren't exactly beloved themselves anyway.
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Re: Why do the French not have a day for Napoleon?
« Reply #31 on: November 22, 2017, 05:48:43 am »
Don't kid yourselves, the swamp-Germans are the best breed alive



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Re: Why do the French not have a day for Napoleon?
« Reply #32 on: November 22, 2017, 11:20:59 am »
Don't be such a soyboy, Toffee. The world's population consists of more than just the Dutch and French, who aren't exactly beloved themselves anyway.
I was joking Gordo but whatever floats your boat

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Re: Why do the French not have a day for Napoleon?
« Reply #33 on: November 22, 2017, 04:44:45 pm »
Don't be such a soyboy, Toffee. The world's population consists of more than just the Dutch and French, who aren't exactly beloved themselves anyway.
I was joking Gordo but whatever floats your boat

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Re: Why do the French not have a day for Napoleon?
« Reply #34 on: November 22, 2017, 07:53:09 pm »
Sorry Gordo I forgot anyone insulting England triggers you

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Re: Why do the French not have a day for Napoleon?
« Reply #35 on: November 23, 2017, 07:16:21 pm »
Several millions?

Estimates range from 3-6.5 million dead between 1800-1815. As many as 1 in 5 French males born between 1790-1795 died in Napoleon's wars. Great book on casualty figures throughout history I always turn to: https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Warfare_and_Armed_Conflicts.html?id=kNzCDgAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y

I can't enter the book but 1. casualties aren't fatalities and 2. I doubt the casualty rate of other nations was significantly lower. A significant amount of 'French' troops also actually weren't French but Dutch, Flemish, Germans or Italians. To say France's low birth rate throughout the 19th century was due high casualties in the Napoleonic war seems a rash conclusion.


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Re: Why do the French not have a day for Napoleon?
« Reply #36 on: November 23, 2017, 08:01:35 pm »
I didn't say they were the same thing. But anyway, the Napoleonic Wars was the most destructive conflict of the 19th century bar the Taiping Rebellion. As a percentage of the population France lost more men between 1799-1815 than they did in either WWI or WWII. Hardly rash to suggest the Napoleonic Wars were a/the major reason for France's terrible demographics in the 19th century, and most historians accept that it was.


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Re: Why do the French not have a day for Napoleon?
« Reply #37 on: November 28, 2017, 12:53:39 pm »
It's a bit like asking why the Russians don't have a day for Stalin.

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Re: Why do the French not have a day for Napoleon?
« Reply #38 on: November 28, 2017, 11:37:24 pm »
It's a bit like asking why the Russians don't have a day for Stalin.
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Napoleon did a bunch of good shit for the world. Put some respek on the name.

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Re: Why do the French not have a day for Napoleon?
« Reply #39 on: November 29, 2017, 01:52:48 am »
yeah we wouldn't have this AWESOME game without him, Gosh guys??
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Re: Why do the French not have a day for Napoleon?
« Reply #40 on: November 29, 2017, 04:16:46 am »
I mean Napoléon is the reason why half the countries are united as well, I think it's only fair that the French at the very least post the Republican guard at his moved grave.

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Re: Why do the French not have a day for Napoleon?
« Reply #41 on: November 30, 2017, 11:03:30 am »
well its cause of western countries having their 'identity crisis'

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Re: Why do the French not have a day for Napoleon?
« Reply #42 on: December 01, 2017, 01:46:41 am »
I'm not terribly well read into the issue but I believe a reasoning could be that first the monarchy tried to surpress and even erase the memory of the Napoleonic era and that later during the third republic and after, Napoleon's ideals didn't fit too well with the new republican values of the time. Again, it's a guess.
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