France objects to Waterloo euro coin

[Warren Dew]

Perhaps a Euro coin commemorating the genocide of the Neanderthals?

All the ancestors of modern Europeans participated, with the odd bit of miscegenation thrown in...

I have my doubts about that. I think the Neanderthals were starved to near extinction by climate change and then the few that were left interbred with the people coming out of Africa.

If only the Neanderthals had struck oil, they might still be here today.
A lesson for us all, I think.

Isn't it hate speech in Europe to deny genocide?

[piscator]

My daughter is off to Belgium for three weeks on a sort of work experience thing with a potter over there. We went in to change some Sterling into Euros for her today.

Lost and lots of Euros for not so many pounds!

..and we have Darwin on our bank notes!

We have a guy who cropped teh Ganj.

[mistermack]

Perhaps a Euro coin commemorating the genocide of the Neanderthals?

All the ancestors of modern Europeans participated, with the odd bit of miscegenation thrown in...

I have my doubts about that. I think the Neanderthals were starved to near extinction by climate change and then the few that were left interbred with the people coming out of Africa.

If only the Neanderthals had struck oil, they might still be here today.
A lesson for us all, I think.

Isn't it hate speech in Europe to deny genocide?

Good for Europe.
Japan could learn from us. So could the US.

[L'Emmerdeur]

..and we have Darwin on our bank notes!

I hear he's going to lose his beard and will get a sweet little bonnet.

[jamest]

I'd like to see an Agincourt coin too.

[Rum]

I went to the museum at Agincourt. It is very small and quite hard to find.

[Svartalf]

I'd like to see an Agincourt coin too.

Only when we do an Orleans or Castillon coin

[Svartalf]

I went to the museum at Agincourt. It is very small and quite hard to find.

There's even a museum at Azincourt? ?

More than I'd expect, I'd ha thought the place would have changed its name.

[JimC]

I went to the museum at Agincourt. It is very small and quite hard to find.

...as the actress said to the bishop...

[jamest]

I went to the museum at Agincourt.

I'm quite envious. I love visiting such places.

It is very small and quite hard to find.

I don't suppose it matters much at your age?

[jamest]

I went to the museum at Agincourt.

On a serious note, I can imagine that there's not a lot of French interest in a battlefield where they lost to the English. Little interest = little funds = small museum.

[JimC]

I went to the museum at Agincourt.

On a serious note, I can imagine that there's not a lot of French interest in a battlefield where they lost to the English. Little interest = little funds = small museum.

And yet I believe that the site of the Norman invasion of Britain is quite popular...

[jamest]

I went to the museum at Agincourt.

On a serious note, I can imagine that there's not a lot of French interest in a battlefield where they lost to the English. Little interest = little funds = small museum.

And yet I believe that the site of the Norman invasion of Britain is quite popular...

That's different, for complex reasons. In a nutshell, the Normans were instrumental in shaping English/British history after 1066. Our royalty/culture/landscape/language is/was profoundly influenced by William [of Normandy], so English/British history/culture embraces The Normans in the same manner that it embraces The Romans, not least The Saxons and Vikings. In England/Britain, we embrace all of our mongrel roots.

The English kicked arse in France for a significant time (indeed, there was a time when England ruled over several regions of France for many decades), but none of this had the same irreversible effect upon French identity as did 1066 for the identity of England/Britain.

[JimC]

Fair point...

[mistermack]

I think it's misleading to say that England ruled over parts of France. Or vice versa.

It's just the people at the top who rule. Very little changes for anyone else.
The English king might have ruled territories on the continent that are part of modern France.
But the English Kings were french, and lots of them hardly spoke a word of English.

You could equally say that England was ruled by a French king rather than bits of France were ruled by an English king.

I think Richard the Lionheart didn't speak any English, if I remember right.