"Der des Ders" means "last of the last" because world war one was so awful, soldiers thought there wouldn't be any war again.
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>
> I wish with all my compatriots a good national festival..
> I hope that you were not touched by the economic crisis, that your car
> did not burn and that you have escaped with the drunkards brawlers of
> the balls of July 14.
>
> That makes one week that I dig myself the head to find what to write on
> this occasion, I can more really only be French mean I must say.
> On the one hand it is difficult to describe its country and its people,
> 60 million inhabitants that done many different individuals.
>
> The signs external of patriotism became politically suspect, the
> religion does not enter more counts some, it remains the 35 hours, the
> social security and Sundays at ikea like values morals.
>
> However I like the culture and the "Gallic" character typically of on
> our premises, it is extremely well described in the data
> base "Asterix", so much so that I do not know any more which trainer of
> a team of foreign Rugby imposed the reading of it on his players so
> that they include/understand our mentality.
>
> The French is grouser, he awaits much of his government for example, he
> is preserving and being wary, new technologies always later on our
> premises arrive, Internet is an example even if we made up for our lost
> time in this field. We lived our industrial revolution with much
> mistrust because I believe that we are attached to quality of life
> above all.
>
> The French passes much from time to table, I like neither cheese nor
> the wine but I always delighted to see my compatriots enjoying their
> wretched nauseous cheese and their bitter red liquid while telling a
> heap of jokes and while laughing extremely.
> When I worked in tourism, me had been explained, to prepare excursions,
> that American wanted a comfort absolute in the hotels and the bus as
> well as impeccable toilets in the restaurants, the French as for them,
> want an good atmosphere with guides sympathetic nerves and especially,
> good meals!
> Even the pyramids will be ugly for them if the meal were not with the
> height!
>
> I think that we have much humour, I realize there when I play online
> game "battleground Europe", a mmorpg at the rather slow rate/rhythm,
> which leaves time to use the cat intensively.
> The French are much more talkative than the other players according to
> than I in board considering, compared to the Germans, anglo Saxon,
> Italian, Spanish or Scandinavian, the jokes fuse at a tremendous speed
> whereas the others seek the performance above all, we seek the total
> recreation.
> My compatriots are also the only ones to have creates several squads or
> distinct clans in the play which hate themselves cordially, however if
> a foreigner is caught some with the one among us the French always
> tighten the elbows.
> They are funny these French, they adore to be hated but will never
> tolerate but one foreigner does not criticize their adversary.
>
> Lately a Mexicaine friend living in Paris in a district very
> cosmopilite asked me what meant French being, because for the moment
> she had not seen large thing of it.
>
> I was well in the embarrassment but it came to me quickly at the head
> that the French was enthusiast of social justice like one says now, I
> would say rather than my people require that everyone have to eat.
> The many jacqueries of the Middle Ages, the revolution during which we
> cut the head of our king who was not so bad, each time the plates were
> empty since too a long time.
> Our nourishing earth was always generous for us and our art of living
> results certainly from this.
> Social protection very developed on our premises probably comes from
> this spirit of justice which animates the French and I am certain that
> the majority of our explorers during the periods of colonization had in
> the idea to make benefit the less rich people from our quality of life.
> It was an error because these people did not require that we build
> roads to them, schools, to make stop the tribal wars…
> They lived in this manner since centuries, and the white man came with
> his sufficiency to explain that they were unhappy, that to them started
> from a finer feelings but it was a failure and that cost us so much
> expensive!
>
> In order to dam up this feeling of uprooting which frequently attacks
> me, I often think of my maternal grandfather, large patriotic, man of
> good and fundamentally honest.
>
> Born in 1898, (as the mauser) in Rheims "Georges" was resulting from a
> family of the middle-classes, his/her father was director in a factory
> of tires (using the rubber of Indo-China one of the rare colonies which
> did not cost us money) his mother dealt with his many brothers and
> sisters.
>
> Believing and patriot, it went voluntary in 1914 as soon as the
> declared war at summer to the Prussians, as one said at the time. He
> was not yet 18 years old and had to cheat on his birth date.
> Recruitment with due taking time because his/her anxious mother not to
> see his/her son surveyed the streets of the district in the hope to
> find it, it is when it crossed friends of this one which it learned the
> news:
>
> "Do you Have Georges? enquit it, anxious.
> - Georges, but did it engage, it is at the office of recruitment, it
> anything said you? "
>
> My grandfather will live the 4 years of hell like the majority of young
> people of his generation, transferred in the infantry, he will be
> placed at the kitchens at the beginning because its constitution did
> not inspire confidence with the recruiters which found it too thin and
> weak to endure the life in first line. He was very liked men of his
> regiment because he prepared rice with the chocolate to them and for
> them, it was feastday each time.
> Georges will spend much time in the trenches, he will live the butchery
> of Verdun enter other battles devourers of lives.
> He will not be only slightly wounded during the war but will have the
> cold feet, which will make it suffer all its life.
> He spoken forever about the horrors which he could see but often
> mentioned the rats which would run on the soldiers while they tried to
> sleep in their shelters of trenches cold and wet.
> However he forever regretted to be itself committed, he fought for his
> country because he estimated that it was its duty it is all.
> I am always shocked at the time of each ceremonies of November 11 or
> while I look at emissions on the First World War.
> One there glorifie mutinés, one cries over the fate of our poor
> soldiers with a voice éprise of pity, it is an insult with their
> memory, even during the mutinies the soldiers did not ask that they are
> felt sorry for, only that one includes/understand
> that one improves their daily newspaper.
> However the majority of between-them will live all the horrors of this
> war without spirit of rendering, without never yielding, these
> generations broken by the destiny very gave for their country and their
> people and they were proud.
> My grandfather did not keep his helmet adrian which was offered to each
> hairy unfortunately, I think that he did not want to think of it any
> more.
>
> The "DER of the ders" being finally finished, Georges has creates his
> caoutchoutery then married and will have 3 children.
> Its company will count to jusquà 80 employees, then came the second
> world war…
>
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