Quote Originally Posted by Kobal2fr
Haha, you'd know if you were French and born in the late 70s, let me tell you . They just wouldn't let go of it when I was a kid. Probably school books issued during the Algerian war...

God, I don't know how many times Poitiers-732, Charles Martel and his hammer came up in my grade school history classes and subsequent tests, year after year. That and bloody, bloody Charlemagne with his bloody flowered beard and his bloody missi dominici...

He was easier though. Crowned emperor in 800, nice, round number, easy as Marignan 1515
I read mostly English histories, so I knew about Alfred the Great, William the Conqueror and Henry V. I never heard of Charlemagne and certainly not Charles Martel (I thought he was that insane Swedish fellow that tried to conquer all of Europe and nearly succeeded).