Good article thanks for posting it Patrocles. My mother who is French (U.S. citizen of course) is 96 years old and currently sitting next to me eating some camembert with crackers. For New Years she purchased a bottle of French champagne (Veuve Clicquot by Brut). She says its the best bottle for the money. She was living in Nantes, France during the Normandy invasion. She remembers the Allies dropping bombs on German positions in or around Nantes and said the first drop resulted in about 1000 french civilian deaths.