The French History Podcast

With the new jobs report showing America lost 92,000 jobs in February it's official: Trump created fewer jobs in 14 months than Biden in 3 weeks. Bring back Corn Pop!

The top 10%'s share of the national wealth in France, USA and Russia. France's has been stabke, America's is gradually growing more unequal, while Russian inequality skyrocketed in the 1990s.

Do you believe your fellow citizens are good or bad? 55% of French people believe French are good, 43% say bad. At the bottom is the US with more Americans saying their people are bad. Canada is at the top with 92% of Canadians liking Canadians. Credits in image.

France was guillotining people into 1977, when the original Star Wars was released.

If anyone is at the SFHS Conference this weekend come say 'hi'! I will be wearing a silly black hat

Income share going to the top 1% by country over 200 years. Credits in image.

The crazies are out today

Will Americans start calling 'French fries,' 'freedom fries,' or is this the one thing that we're not repeating from the Iraq War 2003?

French president Emmanuel Macron announces that France will increase its nuclear arsenal in a speech in front of a nuclear submarine, 2 March 2026.

European countries currently in talks to house French nuclear weapons. As US president Trump has threatened to invade NATO countries, Europeans increasingly distrust the US & are turning to France to provide a nuclear umbrella to replace the US.

In 2003 US President George W. Bush told French president Jacques Chirac in a private talk that they needed to invade Iraq to defeat the Biblical demons Gog & Magog. If reports are correct US officials are still trying to jumpstart Armageddon 23 years later because Jesus didn't come back last time.

Only 100 nuclear weapons detonating could cause a nuclear winter that would kill billions and end human civilization. France has 290 nuclear weapons. Despite France's ability to end humanity three times over, Macron has called for building more nukes.

I don't know which countries the US will go to war with in the next 100 years, but I do know they will all be armed with US manufactured weapons.

Kuwait's air defense system, which it buys from US companies, shot down 3 American planes. My tax dollars just shot down my tax dollars.

Khomeini and his acolytes in the garden of 23 Route de Chevreuse, in Neauphle-le-Château, 1979. Khomeini spent a year in exile in France before returning to Iran during its revolution, where his followers eventually seized power.

Uh oh. When 1,995 Americans were asked to point out Iran on a map, 11 picked France. Only 23% could find Iran.

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Neauphle-le-Château, France, 1979. Khomeini opposed the US/UK-backed dictatorship of the Shah which ordered his banishment from Iran. Khomeini spent 15 years abroad & 1 in France. In 1979 he became the Supreme Leader of Iran, replacing the old dictatorship with the new

It's safe to say every war Israel fights is a war on Gaza. Every conflict they have with other countries will include rockets, sniper fire and/or a blockade against Gazans while the world is distracted.

Don't let this get lost in the news deluge: Israel is using the Iran bombing as an excuse to starve Gazans of food, water and medical supplies.

89: Provence Part 1 Time to head south to a sunnier climate and a far different history from the north!

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It's so funny to me when bigots try to use the Crusades for propaganda when the Crusaders had a worse winning percentage than FC Bordeaux.

Castle Development. Image credit to Reddit user WayneJoker

Never argue with a teenage girl

#OTD 26 February 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from exile on the island of Elba.

#OTD 26 February 1802 Victor Hugo was born. He became a novelist, often regarded as one of the greatest writers in French history. His most famous works are the novels The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831) and Les Misérables (1862).

Popularity of French presidents in a 2018 poll. Credit to Statista

A protestor sneakily hung a photo of disgraced Prince Andrew at the Louvre, February 2026.

"Who defeated Germany in 1945?" asked in 1945, 1994, 2004 and 2015. Opinion wildly shifted against the Soviet Union and towards the United States.

"We don't cry for Nazis here," left-wing protestors in Rennes following the death of far-right activist Quentin Deranque, 21, February 2026. Quentin's death in clashes with leftists in Lyon, has intensified divisions in France as the far-left & far-right increasingly take to the streets.