England Farts on France


	England Farts on France

JohnWaterman

9-3-2007 10:55 AM

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JohnWaterman says:

Bomarding the bum-boats

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e4b5386f-8c92-43b1-b18a-80542d049479/8F6D0E45-E635-4754-A705-223553979CB5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/09/03/171-john-bull-bombarding-france-with-bum-boats/" href="http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/09/03/171-john-bull-bombarding-france-with-bum-boats/" style="font-size: 11px;">strangemaps.wordpress.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/09/03/171-john-bull-bombarding-france-with-bum-boats/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/strangemaps.wordpress.com/img/7CBA05FA-EABD-4623-A3E5-A913A9DED4BE" alt="gillray_giii1.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/09/03/171-john-bull-bombarding-france-with-bum-boats/"><P><SPAN><FONT face="Rockwell">“I <STRONG>fart in your general direction</STRONG>,” a haughty Frenchman (played by John Cleese) shouts at a not so merry band of Englishmen looking for the Holy Grail in the Monty Python movie of that name. That insult could have been inspired by this hand-coloured etching, although the ‘leavings’ are aimed in the opposite direction.</FONT></SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/09/03/171-john-bull-bombarding-france-with-bum-boats/"><P><SPAN><FONT face="Rockwell">This caricature, dating from 1793, is called <EM>‘A New Map of England and France. The French Invasion; - or - John Bull Bombarding the Bum-Boats’</EM>. It deals with the then very acute <STRONG>British fear of a French invasion</STRONG>. At that moment in time, France was raging with a revolutionary fervour, perhaps comparable to Iran at the height of its Islamic revolution, <EM>vis-à-vis</EM> the threat that emanated from it towards the surrounding established regimes.</FONT></SPAN></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8F6D0E45-E635-4754-A705-223553979CB5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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