FRENCH: la perfide Angleterre... ‡
FRENCH: la perfide Albion... ‡‡
FRENCH: L’Angleterre, ah, la perfide Angleterre, / 'L'Angleterre, ah, la perfide Angleterre, / que le rempart de ses mers rendoit inaccessible aux Romains, / la foi du Sauveur y est abordée. ‡‡‡
‡) Perfidious England. — one of two stock 19th c. French expressions [see below], dating from the 18th. c. British disavowel of the French Revolution, which had sought to split the difference between a British Consitutional monarchy, & the new Democracy in America, & used as a journalistic short-hand for any diplomatic disputes between the English & the French... The English were so disliked by Europeans in the 19th c. that the terms became popular in Portugal after the British Ultimatum of 1890; & the Germans also used the term, saying it in French, as they two had rising diplomatic tensions with Britain. & also refering to the Treaty of Limerick of 1691, ending the war between the R.C. Jacobites & Wm. of Orange’s loyal English forces, initially giving Irish Catholics property rights, as well as religions freedom, & to carry arms, but repudiated in 1695 by the Penal Laws... Such are the Pommie Prot’ bastard motherfuckers... Actually, this shit goes back to the 14th c. & this has had a revival with this brave new post-Brexit world this that has such Tories in it, esp. in France, & in Spain, which has to deal with the Gibraltar clusterfuck.
‡‡) Perfidious Albion. — see above
‡‡‡) England, oh perfidious England, / Shielded against the Romans by her ocean ramparts,/ Now receives the true faith.
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