I do get the point, however, that those particular French soldiers were brave. The myth that the French are ineffective soldiers is fairly recent and based on their collapse in WWII when they were invaded on 2 fronts and the British bailed; and more recently touted by people irritated by their refusal to support all current American initiatives. In fact they dominated Europe during the time of Louis XIV and again in the Napoleonic era, and their soldiers played a key role in
re-taking Italy and France at the end of WWII.
Not that this is off topic, and in fact, another invasion of Paris is underway as I type this.