>>Sorry but my whole perception of French insults is colored by the couple of scenes at the ramparts in Monty Python's Holy Grail.
Do i detect the aroma of elderberries drifting towards me... or is it something worse?!
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1