Spoken like a true British school boy Ratty
You got to love the French
Say that to "les filles Anglaises"
I know ... Sarkozy pro-US & genrale Obama arse-licking attitude during the D-Day celebrations was nothing short of an utter national disgrace.
As far as the general population, what do you expect ? After-all the most recent generations the world over seem to learn history from Hollywood & Spielberg's stone tablets .
In the mean-time, self-hating France is far too busy spending more time on "pre 19th Century Africain Empires", that gave absolutly sweet nothing to the world and that barely left any traces to be seen today, than the French Napoleonic period that changed the map of Europe and gave most of our continent mesures & legislation.
The teaching of the 2nd WW fares hardly better and seem to be entirely dedicated to the holocaust & how the US saved us all with time to spare to brain-wash any young mind into believing that patriotism is the modern equivalent of nazism. I am actually ready to bet that less than 1% of French youth know that French troops spear-headed the Sword Beach's assault (under British uniform) and that 2 months later a landing took place in Provende let alone that over 2/3 of the troops were French.