For its size and coastline, why'd the French navy always

France was historically a land power rather than a naval one.

I think it's more that the UK, the Netherlands, Spain and Portugal had nowhere to go except over water if they desired to expand.

While France and Germany could just enjoy the status quo or invade a neighbor.

>>73114831
This doesn't make sense.

>>73114831
The Netherlands had the biggest navy in the world for a long time because we had a huge merchant fleet that could easily be converted into warships.

So as long as our trade grew our fleet also grew.

>>73114777
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_French_naval_battles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_La_Rochelle

mmmmmmmh

>>73114777
But anglos lost Yorktown battle vs french navy, that literally won america independance.

Lafayette desu

kind of suck?
Really ?

>>73114891
Because our states (provinces) were so rich they also started building their own navy's besides the national navy. A bit like if all national guards / state defense forces in the USA would arm up.

And the British grew a navy because they were jealous and had to match ours.

>>73114777
One thing int has taught me, is do not be fooled by the Latinate French language. Their aspergers and sense of humor proves the French are truly Germans.

Also although Germany is associated with humorless people and militarism, until the late 19th century France was more known as a warrior nation and Germans as just a bunch of jolly beer-swilling peasants who had to be flogged into battle by their Junker overlords.

As Rudyard Kipling said, "The business of the Frenchman is war, and he does a very good job of it." To this day, France is the only EU member which is militarily self-sufficient (instead of dependent on the US for defense) and has a nuclear arsenal.

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>French navy is good right in time to cuck the anglos of the USA

we had the best privateers and pirates anyway

>>73115223
France is latin.

>>73115299
>Rudyard Kipling said, "The business of the Frenchman is war, and he does a very good job of it."

he never said that

>>73115304
Most recognisable pirates where from the British isles.
As the Spiccs would say "Anglo Pirate scum"

>>73117596
they're more famous but quite boring

>>73120090
Wrong

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The French military history surely gets a lot of unwarranted flack in the English side of the Internet. Sad.

>>73115223
kek what do you even know about our sense of humor ? tell me what french comedies you have actually seen and what you got from it
or about aspergers, how so ? french people are normies and germans are awkward

also besides language what about all the good food, the architecture, the sunny lands, the wine, the catholicism instead of protestantism, etc ? there is nothing german about it

>>73120160
>muh blackbeard

>>73120180
French military history is better than British military history, but their pirates are absolutely not

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>>73120548
Every real Latin country has giant tittied newsgirls. Mexico, Spain, Italy... but not France. You are fake Latin, gross jobbering G*rman