Free France only about 7,000 soldiers had joined the Free French Army in England. Three-quarters of French servicemen in Britain requested repatriation. France was bitterly divided by the conflict. Frenchmen everywhere were forced to choose sides, and often deeply resented those who had made a different choice. One French admiral, René-Émile Godfroy, voiced the opinion of many of those who decided not to join the Free French forces, when in June 1940, he explained to the exasperated British why he would not order his ships from their Alexandria harbour to join de Gaulle: Equally, few Frenchmen believed that England could stand alone.
Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong the French, "The Bonjour Effect: The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed" (St. Martin's Press, 2016). This new book is not an update of "Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong", but it uses a similar approach to analyze and describe the way the French talk – about small things and big issues, themselves and the world around them, including their own taboos. "Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong" inspired the authors' second book, "The Story of French", (St. Martin’s Press, Knopf Canada and Anova-Robson Books, 2006), a history of French language as it's spoken across the planet. There are two