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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMacron agrees to lend Britain a giant tapestry of French blokes kicking the shit out of Englishmen
In a move seen by many as an olive branch to Theresa Mays government, the French president has allowed the unprecedented loan of the Bayeux tapestry, a medieval masterpiece commemorating the decisive victory inflicted by a young charismatic French leader over squabbling Saxon lords.
Simon Guillaumes, the curator of the Musee National de Bayeux, explained that President Macron had personally asked for the 70 meters long tapestry to be made ready for the trip to London.
Its a beautiful historical snapshot of how focused Norman warriors casually swept aside enfeebled Saxon chieftains and their obsolete fyrds full of ignorant peasants clinging to antiquated ways.
Look at the rich detail! You can see the Norman archers smiling as they simply arced their shots over the shields of the gobsmacked, unimaginative Saxons who thought they were safe on their sovereign isle.
And its such a lovely tale. A British leader finding himself at the mercy of a hospitable Norman Duke makes promises he had no intention of keeping and never wonders why the target of his deceit was nicknamed the Bastard. Or that it might be unwise to piss off people who had seized kingdoms from the Volga to Sicily.
Simon Guillaumes, the curator of the Musee National de Bayeux, explained that President Macron had personally asked for the 70 meters long tapestry to be made ready for the trip to London.
Its a beautiful historical snapshot of how focused Norman warriors casually swept aside enfeebled Saxon chieftains and their obsolete fyrds full of ignorant peasants clinging to antiquated ways.
Look at the rich detail! You can see the Norman archers smiling as they simply arced their shots over the shields of the gobsmacked, unimaginative Saxons who thought they were safe on their sovereign isle.
And its such a lovely tale. A British leader finding himself at the mercy of a hospitable Norman Duke makes promises he had no intention of keeping and never wonders why the target of his deceit was nicknamed the Bastard. Or that it might be unwise to piss off people who had seized kingdoms from the Volga to Sicily.
http://newsthump.com/2018/01/17/macron-agrees-to-lend-britain-a-giant-tapestry-of-french-blokes-kicking-the-shit-out-of-englishmen/
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Macron agrees to lend Britain a giant tapestry of French blokes kicking the shit out of Englishmen (Original Post)
ehrnst
Jan 2018
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lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)1. OMG I love it!
That dude is BAD.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)2. From the linked article ...
"Other European governments have decided to join the friendship-through-art initiative started by France.
Sweden and Denmark have sent superb collections of Norse metalwork from the time where their illiterate subsistence-farming ancestors sailed to Britain and easily defeated the opposition of vainglorious local rulers."
DavidDvorkin
(19,485 posts)3. That's funny, but the Normans
were originally Norsemen who had kicked the shit out of the French.
And the story of Edward's defeat is rather more complicated than getting the shit kicked out of him.