Re: OT: For information only !

Quoting Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...>:


> Well, I searched on Google and found 1,870 pages (in
> French) mentioning the expression "perfide Albion",
> but couldn't really find any convincing origin. It
> just seems this expression has always existed... which
> is probably not the case. England is the perfidious
> Albion just as Japan is the country of the Rising Sun,
> there can't be any discussion about that :-) . Of
> course, one could mention the 100 Years War, Jeanne
> d'Arc, Canada, India, Napoleon, Fachoda, Mers-el-Kebir
> and the mad cow, but who did use this expression for
> the first time, I don't know. I suspect it was at the
> time of French Revolution, anyway, probably XVIIIth
> century.
A little voice in my head says that Napoleon invented or popularized the
expression, but I don't know where I've got that from.

                                        Andreas