The Angevin Empire

[poliphilo]

Keith, my bro-in-law, was showing us pictures from their holiday in the Dordogne. They were staying with English friends in their house in a dirt-poor medieval town where, judging from the pictures, there are no French people whatsoever.

The French flee their countryside for the city, leaving the field wide open for middle-class English people to come in and gobble-up property at ridiculous prices. If this trend continues, rural France will be populated entirely by the English and we'll be well on track towards re-establishing the glorious Angevin Empire.

In the reign of Henry II (remember him from the Lion in Winter?) the Kings of England (who were Frenchmen really) controlled a coastal strip that ran all the way from the Scottish borders to the Pyrenees. It was a geographical unit that made as much sense as most modern nations. I want it back. I want it back NOW!

Comments

[ibid.livejournal.com]

I cannot imagine anything more ghastly than to go abroad and find nobody except English people.

And these are usually the types who complain Britain is being overrun by foriegners....

this is rather belated, but

[four-thorns.livejournal.com]

it's pretty ironic that british people don't want foreigners taking up residence in their country... maybe they should have thought about that before colonizing half the world.