A bit of cocorico and a big FU to the myth...

[Starfox]

And it's not even the French saying it, it's astonishingly the British-American historian Niall Ferguson! Although there was no way to talk about 109 battles won in the 168 in which France was involved over nearly two millennia in such a short video, Simon did his best to present 5 of them -- though technically the first one was a loss but so representative of the combativeness of the French army that the German General who commanded on the battlefield ordered his men after the battle to bury the French soldiers dead still on the battlefield with military honors just because he thought they deserved at least that. And when your enemy starts to honor you, you know you did well, whatever the result.