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 versions of the book in French, one published in Quebec in 2007 with the title "La Grande Aventure de la langue française". In 2011, Jean-Benoît Nadeau completely rewrote and adapted the original English version for a French edition published in Paris, "Le français, quelle histoire!" (Télémaque and Le Livre de Poche). In 2013, the couple also published "The Story of Spanish" (St. Martin's Press), which was inspired by "The Story of French". Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong (Sourcebooks, 2003) is the first book from the writer-journalist team Julie Barlow and Jean-Benoît Nadeau. The