re: #335 Dark_Falcon

You recall correctly. The Quaid D’Orsay was seriously ambivalent about the need to fight for freedom. And in that they were echoed by too much of France.

Capt. Renault’s attitude in Casablanca in large part reflects historical reality, including to some degree the fact that learning how evil the Nazi regime really was made a good number of Frenchmen realize that they had to fight it if they wanted the things that they loved to survive.

I always thought it was kind of sick how that the French let half their fleet get blown up by the British in Mers-el-Kebir, given the circumstances, but blew up the rest of their ships in Toulon a couple of years later.