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112 Gripes About the French

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1945 handbook issued by the United States military

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112 Gripes About the French was a 1945 handbook issued by the United
States military authorities to enlisted personnel arriving in France
after the Liberation. It was meant to defuse the growing tension
between the American military and the locals.

The euphoria of victory over Germany was short-lived, and within
months of Liberation, tensions began to rise between the French and
the U.S. military personnel stationed in the country, with the former
seeing the latter as arrogant and wanting to flaunt their wealth, and
the latter seeing the former as proud and resentful. Fights were
breaking out more often, and fears were raised, even among high
officials, that the situation might eventually lead to a breakdown of
civil order.

Set out in a question-and-answer format, 112 Gripes about the French
posed a series of well-rehearsed complaints about the French, and
then provided a common-sense rejoinder to each of them -- the aim of
the authors being to bring the average American soldier to a fuller
understanding of his hosts.

It has been republished in the United States in 2004 (ISBN 
1-4191-6512-7), and in France under the title "Nos amis les Francais"
("Our friends the French"), ISBN 2-7491-0128-X in 2003.

See also[edit]

  * Anti-French sentiment in the United States
  * Franco-American relations
  * Francophobia
  * Military history of France during World War II
  * Military of the United States

Sources[edit]

  * 112 Gripes about the French (PDF). Archived from the original 
    (PDF) on 2015-10-17.
  * BBC comments on the recent republishing of the handbook.

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