"Female Suffrage in France."

Watching the Antiques Roadshow, they had a piece of "tramp art" which was a keenly-whittled frame made to encase an old scarf from Belgium that depicted Liberty or some such allegorical figure, and had the legend "suffrage universel" on it. The antiques expert remarked, in the course of dating the scarf, that while the scarf was from the 1870s, French women hadn't got the vote until 1944.

I burst out laughing at this.

I realised that I was laughing at the tardiness in the women of France getting the vote. I wasn't certain why I found this funny, but I did.

France.

The French.

How they love to go on!