Keep talking shit about America's first and longest ally, without whom the United States wouldn't exist. Yes, they can be prickly at times, but we've never warred with them. You talk as though the defeat in a war in which many other countries fell to Germany before France, e.g., Austria, Poland, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, and Belgium, equates to cowardness as a national characteristic.
If not for France's sacrifice at Dunkirk and the Channel, the UK most assuredly would've also fallen in the early stages of that war. Who the fuck knows what the world would look like if the English couldn't have run away to fight another day?
Personally, I know far more French than English, and they've been truly great, reliable, loyal, fun-loving, but also provocative friends. Je les aime, les français. Ils définissent une irritabilité adorable mais profonde. If you don't know any, your life is all the much poorer. Go find a French to love.