Quote Originally Posted by Degtyarev14.5
I believe this dates from WWI...

When the German artillery fires, the French run for cover.
When the British artillery fires, the Germans run for cover.
When the French artillery fires, everyone runs for cover.
(.../...)
Duh. Might have been true in other wars(especially 1870 one, where all forces went wrong), but in WWI, french artillery was mostly made of accurate 75mm pieces. The lack of high-caliber systems did prevent that kind of things(and was a real lack in our order of battle, by the way).

But hell, I wouldn't trust french artillery, this has never been our strong point, by far, & that joke is nevertheless rather accurate