HowTo:Be French

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“RUN AWAAAAAAAY!!!”

~ Monty Python on being french

“I SURRENDER”

~ Oliver Matters on Nicky Mouse with a wooden implement

So, you want to be French, huh? Well, I’m glad someone does. After all, look at all the things France has given the world: So there’s a lot there to be proud of. We here at Uncyclopedia are proud to give you an instant crash course in How to Be French.

[edit] Choose your side of the Loire

There is not one model of French, but rather two. In the middle there is a river called Loire. It is said to be famous for its castles. But those are just fortification since the two French are always on the edge of a civil war. The inbreeding has been common practice, which explains not only why French people are what they are, but also why there are two very distinct species of them. The two French enjoy different rights. This comes certainly from the Vichy's regime still in application in some cities like Orange. To help you in choosing, here is a table that summarize your rights.

[edit] Change Your Name

This is the first step and is obligatory if you become french by joining the Foreign Legion. Most people, fortunately, have names easily converted to a French name. Quite simply this means make your name sound more feminine as to fit in with the other french men who are at least 60% gay. Use the following table to convert your name to French.:

French people often moan arguing English names come directly from their magnificent language. That's why they would make you repeat your name as long as you don't pronounce it correctly.

Also, be always courteous when speaking to a French otherwise you may be lamentably ignored, which is actually preferable to speaking to them anyway.

[edit] Pick a Role Model

Frenchmen are natural leaders of men, adventurers, superheroes. To start with you, should try to pick up frenchness by studying and imitating a great Frenchman from the past.

[edit] Speak French

“The French speak French”

~ Captain Obvious on The French

“So you think you're tough?”

~ Andrew Caci on You

“Entrepreneur - The French don't have a word for it”

~ Bush on The French Language

Sounds obvious, but actually there’s more to it than simply speaking French. Firstly, it is important to get the accent right. A true French person speaks French with an outrageous accent, but only when speaking to foreigners.

Did you know...

It is a little known fact that the French only speak French when people are listening. At all other times they speak English like normal people

To speak with a correct French accent, exaggerated every vowel to breaking point. True French vocal artistes have been known to make a single sentence last all year. For the most part, however, French should be spoken extremely rapidly and with a great deal of facial and bodily gesture. Specifically, you should look down on everybody while you speak. And at all other times. Most importantly, to be French you must speak French exclusively. No other language should ever pass through your vocal chords. In addition, you should act extremely offended if others, no matter what their native language, fail to speak absolutely (absolu-MENT don't pronounce the "t") flawless French. For instance, while travelling in China, you may encounter several dozen people who do not speak French and insist on speaking some other language (like Chinese). To be truly French, you must deride these people and make offensive gestures at them. This same rule applies wherever you are, be it in America, on Mars or at the general assembly of the United Nations. In short, if you are French, as a general rule assume everybody else is as well.

Warning: Speaking flawless french will require you to pout a lot, to be nasal and to use deepthroat muscles for the many (indistiguishable) pronunciations of the letters "u" and "e". French is a subtle language of bewigged 18th century courtiers, ballet dancers, and fashion designers. This not a rugged, manly language of the ubermensch like german. Should you be in any doubt of the nature your manhood, do not attempt to speak French!!

Examples of English words translated into French:

[edit] Surrender

The National Flag of France

The French invented modern warfare and with it the most important notion surrender; why, the eengleesh even had to steal the words directly from French se rendre = surrender. French philosophers have argued that surrendering is a completely rational decision, the civilized way of keeping your smart Christian Dior uniform nice and clean and preserving the historical buildings and tourist attractions of Paris from nasty bombardement and destruction.
Some fools believe that France did not surrender until exhausted, outnumbered, and abandoned by Britian. Obviously, they are idiots. So have your flag easy to remove so you can run up a white one or better still run up the flag of the country that is conquering you next. When enemy troops arrive, wave the appropriate flag and take them straight to where the wine and the girls are. Do not attempt to fight. Do not attempt to resist them, ingratiate yourself by offering to do the paperwork for the invaders who, if they have any self-respect, don't speak French. By all means get involved with the resistance movement if the occupation doesn't look to be helping your career along. Provide assistance to your liberators when they roll into Paris and ingratiate yourself by doing the paperwork for the victory party. As long as nobody finds out (even if they do other french will just admire you for being débrouillard) you will probably even get to be Monsieur le Président someday. But on no account attempt to struggle heroically against your enemy unless you are a communist martyr type or your commander happens to be Corsican.

[edit] Eat Anything

“Now this is what I would call gourmet dining!”

~ Naked Snake on French food.

To be French, you must be prepared to eat anything and everything available to you (with the government enforced exceptions of le Big Mac and British mad cow beef). Why, the great Michel Lotito won the Legion d'honneur for eating an entire plane in just 2 years! All forms of life, including ducks, snails, frogs, horse, flies, horseflies and garlic, are fair game in typical French cuisine. But remember a real frenchman can appreciate any part of an animal (kidneys, heart, balls, brains, entrails, hooves) provided the beast has been exquisitely tortured, force fed or boiled alive first. A typical French meal consists of the following:

• First course: Potage de sauterelles served with pain moisi and beurre rance de chien
• Second course: Les escargots served with leur propre salive and fumier de chat or "fromage mangeant des singes de rendition"
• Third course: Méduses filled with guêpes fâchées Les Américains ont grillé dans le thir possèdent le stupity
• Fourth course: Blaireau découpé en tranches served on a bed of sperme de rat and testicules de singe.
• Fifth course: anus de porc (A la Bedford) filled with savon (sperm)
• Sixth Course: bite de muletier wrapped with rouleaux de papier toilette, covered in cheillmy sauce.
• Seventh course: fromage grouillant, with a glass of le champagne à l'arsenic.
• Eighth course: Coffee, liquors

Of course, it's a joke .

It does, of course, help if you can’t speak French, or come from Bedford and work for a French Bank.

[edit] Be Self-Centred

“Being French means never wanting to say you're sorry.”

~ Jacques Chirac on Being French

YOU matter, right? Nobody else. Why?
Because you’re French, you have the constitutional right to be vachement égoïste = cowly self-centered.
The most important thing in any situation is you. Never mind the others. They’re not as fantastic as you? Why?
Because you’re French (and not Belgian).
Learn the following words off by heart: Va te faire enculer. Repeat them to yourself as often as possible, then repeat them to any foreigners you encounter, or any other people you encounter. Va te faire enculer is the dominant trait of French culture, and roughly translated means "You are not as important as me. Please leave." If you recite the mantra Va te faire enculer often enough, click your ruby slippers together and close your eyes, you should experience delusions of the many famous french military victories of the 20th century accompanied by the Red Army Choir singing la Marseillaise.
Also, remember never to use the words s'il vous plait, merci , pardon or désolé otherwise people will think you are one of the many 18th century courtiers, ballet dancers and fashion designers who happen to speak french.
Learn to drive your Citroen 2CV (2 CheVaux = 2 horsepower) like a 3 year old as this is the easiest way to express one's self importance in public. Some golden rules of french driving:

• Never drive sober. Sobriety is unpatriotic - support the French wine industry!
• Change lane frequently to stay awake on long (or even short) journeys.
• Never look in the rear-view mirror, it's only for your mistress/hooker to put on her lipstick after a romantic tussle.
• Never make a signal before turning as this wears out the bulbs and devalues your car.
• Always park in those convenient vacant spots reserved for people in wheel chairs or on pedestrian-crossings or on the sidewalk.
• Remember that red lights and one-way and no u-turn signs the are just for the Swiss, Germans and other foreigners who have actually learned to drive.
• Load up on beer, wine and cognac when driving at night as it improves night-vision.
• Should anyone complain, Klaxon and shout Va te faire enculer.
  

Learn to talk through your ass as your mouth is too busy with all the eating.
. As a final word of advice, we recommend blowing up a few small Pacific islands every so often to remind the Anglo-Saxons (US/UK/AUS/NZ/parts of Canada) that you exist. Never mind the effect on the environment, local people or nuclear proliferation. If the Australians and the New Zealanders protest, then just blow up their boats, too! Why?
Because you’re French.

[edit] At the restaurant

Never give any tips. First of all, the waiter has a SMIC (level of salary for very rich people) and certainly a bigger yacht than yours. Secondly this is forbidden by tax regulations. Finally, knowing in advance that you would not give any tips, he spitted in all the courses.

Do not be kind with the staff, but do not be an asshole, or they will give it back to you. If you complain on the food for example, you will be considered as what they call a citoyen américain. And this is a very rude word in French. Then the waiter will call the chef, the latter is usually 6'7"... wide. If you asked for salt, you might become the dinner of the next customers.

In a foreign restaurant, do the same. But there are some variants you can use. For instance, ask for tasting a wine, when they served you, hold the glass by the foot, swirl it around, look carefully at the robe, swirl it again, smell, take a sip, make the noise of toilet's flush, spit the wine on the waiter and say: "Diss iz pisse!". Even though you have no idea what you are doing, it does not matter, you are French, so you know what wine is.

[edit] Choose a government sponsored occupation

Frenchmen can't just do anything to make a living, they have to have a job approved and subsidised by the government. Even the lowliest french jobs have fringe benefits commensurate with the French ego including: company car, appartement on the Champs Elysees, free meals in 3 star Michelin restaurants, mistress, 26 weeks holidays and yacht, retirement at 50. Choose from (in strict order of self importance):

• Cheesemaker
• President
• General (the lowest rank in the French army)
• Philosopher
• Collaborateur/double agent (the highest rank in the French army)
• Farmer (EU funded)
• Rugby player
• Fashion designer/Film maker (equivalent of Major in the US army)
• International banker
• Duck stuffer/Snail masturbator
• Winemaker
• Submarine safety officer

For all of these jobs (except President) you will have to pass a concours = 3 year exam to prove that you are man enough to fill out all the paperwork and pay all the right people the right bribes.

[edit] Neglect bathing

If you can resist the temptation for about ten days, you will have a genuine French aroma.

[edit] Elect authoritarian demagogues to high public office

Even if their opponents are called “Ségolène”.

[edit] Build up a tolerance to garlic

Believe us, it helps. It will also protect you from Transylvanian vampires (and American women) but be warned other Hungarian blood sucking demagogues are more resistant.

[edit] Go on strike

Hold up a sign, with something unintelligible scrawled on it, and strut around without working, or if you own a boat, blockade the ports. It's a favorite French activity and pisses the hell out of the foreigners if properly timed. Remember that there are two seasons for striking and any strie outside of these periods is not fairplay and could interfere with the carefully planned logistics of the holiday periods. There are two officially recognized strike seasons:

• the Autumn (October - November)
• the Spring (April - May)

The Autumn strike usually coincides with the hunting season and is a well earned break after the 4 or 5 soul destroying weeks of continuous work after the month of August (when everyone is on holiday and France is officially closed for business.) On the other hand the Spring strike is an occasion for the high school students to get out in the sun, change the world and relive 1968. By common understanding with the government the Autumn strike has to finish before the Christmas holidays and the Spring strike before the start of the baccalaureate exam and the summer holidays.
Ironically, the French put more creative energy and effort into striking than they do into actually working.
Warning: Hunger strikes are considered unpatriotic and are still punishable by the guillotine.