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Originally Posted by Carnyx
Interesting. Like who?
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I heard many frenchmen claiming, for instance, George Lemaitre the creator of the Big Bang theory, or Etienne Lenoir the creator of the first automobile as one of their own (even though the latter took the french citizenship), if they are not, it's the brits or americans who make the confusion, before telling everyone how little the Belgians contributed to the world.
Not an inventor, but Charles Martel, who allegedly saved western europe from islamization is often called a male version of Jeanne D'arc... incidentally, the French version of Wikipedia is the only version where his birth on present day Belgium is not mentionned... It's a Jacobinist mentality, everything is "French washed" or "Paris washed".