There was a very important rugby game in Paris today between France and Scotland, so our streets where full of men in kilts playing the bagpipe - OK maybe not ALL of them playing the bagpipe, but at least the ones I photographed at Montmartre during a little gig they did near Abbesses! France ended up beating Scotland, which allows us to remain in the Six Nations Championship! Had they won, we would have still remained good friends anyway! After all, our two countries have been long time allies and fought England for about three centuries (between 1295 and 1603)! It still remains in our collective memory!
The Auld Alliance indeed!
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ReplyDeleteAs a scot I can trace my name through all the French princesses back to Ailenor of Aquatine and the other two who married into the English crown via French/Scottish ones!
ReplyDeleteUm...the French princesses produced all the Scots? All the French princesses produced one Scot, and named him Eli? Ah, well, we Colonists couldn't handle all that royalty.
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Aye, Jeff, 'tis true... Well, not ALL the Scots, of course. As just one example, even more recent that Ailenor/Eleanor of Aquitaine, Mary Queen of Scots was not only heir to the throne of Scotland, but was also the daughter of a French princess. Mary was married off at only 16 to the sickly [why were so many of them prefaced as "sickly"? Perhaps all that royal intermarriage?] Dauphin of France and became his queen when he became King Francois II ... of France. She was widowed by 18 & shuffled back to Scotland to marry her Stuart/Steward first cousin. Henry, aka Lord Darnley. etc...
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You guys have a very looong collective memory! I can count Mary Queen of Scots among my ancestors—but I'm still glad France won the football match. :~}
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