Official European power rankings of the past 500 years

Britain
>Best navies
>Best scientists
>Best writers
>Best filmmakers
>Best colonial empire
>Best monarchs
>Best flag
France
>Best armies
>Best language
>Best national anthem
Spain
>Most impressive destruction of a primitive empire
Portugal
>Best at choosing allies
Germany
>Best philosophers
>Best musicians
>Best engineers
>Best cars
>Best economy
Austria
>Best bodybuilders-turned-actors-turned-politicians-turned-actors
Switzerland
>Best at avoiding trouble
Poland
>Best video games
Czech Republic
>Best source of amateur pornography
Holland
>Best traders
Italy
>Best artists
>Best chefs
>Best explorers
>Best architecture
Russia
>Best at resisting European invaders
>Best at winning Olympic medals
Sweden
>Hottest people
>Best disco music
Norway
>Most improbably good luck
>Denmark
>Best toys
The results are in: Brits are the best Europeans, Germans trail behind at a distant #2. Tune in at 3016 to see how things go from here.

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>Czech Republic
>>Best source of amateur pornography

>denmark is so irrelevant that it gets greentexted

>Poland not awarded ,,The best heavy cavalry"

At least give us that, Tyrone.

Ta

>Britain superior to France

Why do we always fail?

You're French

I would include best at getting BTFO for us

>Best memes
F I N L A N D

Revenge fit the hundred years war.

>Britain
>Best monarchs
>are actually German

How did we not get best food ?

>German monarchs
>actually germanised Western Slavs

>britain
>best scientists
Trying this hard

this

>Poles
>actually Russians

>Best bodybuilders-turned-actors-turned-politicians-turned-actors
He does commercials for shitty mobile games now

This!

asd

Nope

Croatians are the best Europeans

Here's why:

>money and high purchasing power
>birthplace of famous inventor
>gay rights
>already spend 100 of millions of dollars on importing Polish technology to more easily compete with Western Europe
>strong and predictable economy
>importing cars from Portugal
>white
>invented the necktie so you can look like a gentleman and not like a chino faggot
>almost every family has a car and a PC with internet
>low unemployment
>strategical partnership with Argentina until 2050
>implementing unemployment plan from Greece
>exporting to Serbia and Bosnia
>army uses homemade tanks
>industry based on exports and not on imports
>most people have smartphones

Croatia is also home to the best looking women

cuz you're not Italy, obviously

Good post

...

Because french food is overrated.

I can attest to this statement.

>British
>Euopeans

But since we're French, we're superior to you.

Heard a Russian unironically say they were known around the world for having both the best navy and the best food.

...

France has the best chefs/restaurant culture, but italy has the best food.

...

>listening to anglo propaganda

Americans are generally completely brainwashed by British propaganda on this.

Note also the "best writers" and "best filmmakers" which is of course appallingly ridiculous.

>Be the French """""""""""Empire"""""""""""""
>Get kicked out of Spain by a lone Yorkshireman
lmao

>Britain
>>Best navies

As a former addicted to European movies I can second this. An American saying Britain has the best filmmakers is like a French saying Canada has the best filmmakers of North America.

>>Britain
>>>Best navies

What's that? I can't hear you over the sound of the Britsh Fleet going up in flames...

You haven't seen many films have you

>Britain
>best writers
You mean France, or maybe Russia for novels?

>Britain
>best filmmakers
You mean Italy?

>France
>best armies
Meh, if it were really the case the world would speak French today.

>Germany
>best musicians
Debatable, you're discounting Italy and Austria too quickly.

>Germany
>best cars
Good meme.

>Italy
>best chefs
You mean France?

Also you're harsh with Spain, it was and still is an impressive country.

That was the English fleet you muppet. Read a book and do less weed.

>Britain
>Best writers
Who are
>Chrétien de Troyes
>Rabelais
>Ronsard
>Montaigne
>Descartes
>Corneille
>La Rochefoucauld
>Cyrano de Bergerac
>La Fontaine
>Molière
>Pascal
>Perrault
>Boileau
>Racine
>Rousseau
>Marivaux
>Montesquieu
>Voltaire
>Diderot
> Beaumarchais
>Marquis de Sade
>Chateaubriand
>Stendhal
>Balzac
>Hugo
>Dumas
>Musset
>Baudelaire
>Flaubert
>Verne
>Daudet
>Zola
>Maupassant
>Rimbaud
>Proust
>Valéry
>Apollinaire
>Mauriac
>Céline
>Aragon
>Camus

The only objective way to determine "best" is through sales.
Of the top 3 grossing films ever in North America (and the world) 2 were written, directed, and produced by a Canadian.

Good post.

>The only objective way to determine "best" is through sales

Justin Bieber (also a Canadian) is among the best musicians of all time, then?

Oh the Netherlands are number 1 at training dogs. And also the Dutch army is extremely well trained.

>Best at choosing allies
You better shut up and don't mention us in this type of threads again

Britain is no slouch tbqh, but France really has more major writers, and more varied at that.

You also forgot Villon, Verlaine, Laclos, Chénier, Morand, Michaux, Bloy, Aymé, Saint-Simon, Mérimée, Perec, Nerval, and my man Caraco.

Yes
I don't like Beiber or Titanic or Avatar either, but a LOT of people do and they are the best selling.
Awards and critical acclaim are subjective, cash and popularity are objective

And Lautréamont...!

>popularity is objective
Ok.

Anyway
>UK
>best writters

>Implying it matters

Wood is wood m8... And fire eats wood.

>Le all Anglos are not the same meme

Kek.

Who?

Sean Bean, silly.

Who has the best Jews besides Israel and USA?

Germany

Best scientists is france no doubt. Their impact on physics and mathematics surpasses every one else's. England has nothing on that

Well we are the 3rd most jewish country after those 2, but I dont know if thats something to be proud of.

Hussars are not heavy cavalry, they are medium/light cavalry.

Newton, Darwin, Faraday, Higgs, Turing, Fleming, etc etc etc

Hitchcock desu

Poets- tennyson, Blake, Oscar Wilde, Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge
Writers:
Charles Dickens, Shakespeare, Arthur Conan Doyle,J.R.R Tolkien, J.K Rowling, George Orwell, CS Lewis, John keats, HG Wells, Maugham, AA Milne, Ian Fleming, EM Forster, Graham Greene, William Golding, Rudyard Kipling, Agatha Christie, George Eliot, Lewis Caroll, Roald Dahl etc...

Your jews are moving to London (no, really) because they feel unsafe in France.

Dutchmen use less weed than the British...

You know lists mean nothing if there is no comparison with other countries.

I bet you typed that while high as a kite too. You degenerate.

Less jews, good.

Next step : arabs

Norway is a nation of mediocrity, and I want out, preferably to a place where I can work on video games, speak English and not tiptoe around SJW propaganda (still in its early stages here)

But none of those writers were as impactful as some of the ones listed in

>Britain
>Best writers
France, Germany and Russia have some top notch writers
I was surprise too, Russia contributed quite a lot in terms of culture

> The only objective way to determine "best" is through sales.

That's true according to sales managers and parvenues (and for a combination of both). The issue here is culture however, a thing both of them lack.

>hussars are not heavy cavalry
The Polish Hussars (/həˈzɑːr/, /həˈsɑːr/, or /hʊˈzɑːr/; Polish: Husaria [xuˈsari.a]), or Winged Hussars, were one of the main types of the cavalry in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth between the 16th and 18th centuries. When this cavalry type was first introduced by the Serbian and Hungarian mercenary horsemen at the beginning of the 16th century, they served as light cavalry banners in the Polish army; by the second half of the 16th century and after Stephen Báthory's reforms, hussars had been transformed into heavily armored shock cavalry. Until the reforms of the 1770s, the husaria banners were considered the elite of the Polish cavalry.
T-thanks france, b-but how about we t-trade best chefs for b-best europe conquerors?

>Based on the last 500 years
>Italy's military prowess
Sorry lad.

>The only objective way to determine "best" is through sales.
That would be true if everybody considered movies as some kind of factory products, which is fortunately not the case

Yes they were

Charles Dickens- a christmas Carol is famous
HG Wells -The war of the worlds is famous
Arthur Conan Doyle- Sherlock Holmes is the bedrock of modern detective novels
JRR Tolkien- The Lord of the Rings is the bedrock of modern fantasy
George Orwell- 1984 and animal farm are very famous

You have lumped in Philosophers into your list , we are not discussing Philosophers like voltaire , Montesquieu or Rousseau otherwise i would have thrown in British philosophers like Hobbes, Locke, Hume and Smith


while we are discussing writers of literature, the only comparable writers of literature, in terms of fame and popularity at least , from that list are Hugo, Dumac and Verne

>in terms of fame and popularity at least
Who cares about that? Especially since you are only talking about popularity in the UK. A christmas carol for example is virtually unknown in France.

Hussars were light cavalry and indeed that style of polish/hungarian hussars were adapted in the 18th/19th centuries by other powers as they were good light cavalry and i will give you that
But to call them the best heavy cavalry is a blatant lie.

>literal memes like J. K. Rowling

Please cite Milton, Chaucer or De Quincey if you want to be taken seriously...

Anyway, France has many more top writers than England, simply because we were the most populous country in Europe (by far) until the 19th century.

France has the best Jews but they're slowly leaving (reason: Arabs).

I care about that so you can't just pull up a dozen unknown French writers and say they are the best.
British writers have a far larger presence in literature than French writers.

>we are not discussing Philosophers like voltaire , Montesquieu or Rousseau

All three wrote much more than just philosophy. Especially Voltaire who was mostly famous for his tragedies and poetry back then, and for his tales nowadays (Zadig, Candide, etc.).

Sounds like you dismiss French literature without really knowing it.

I didnt pull unknown French writers, if you dont know them it means you shouldnt talk about French litterature like you know it.

Poland

>Busy fighting for independence, freedom and their own state
>Still make some accomplishments

Those ifs will hunt Poles for lives

Check the list of Nobel laureates in literature

>you can't just pull up a dozen unknown French writers and say they're the best

They're only unknown to you m8.

If you want something "objective", France is the country with most recipients of the Nobel prize in literature (16 laureates).

I threw her in as i figured you didn't read and just copy and pasted from wikipedia and so you would be most likely to recognise her.

You dismiss would dismiss as "literal memes" HG Wells, Doyle, Orwell, Keats, Fleming and Dickens ?


While very amusing Chaucer is a bit old
Milton is a flithy republican
De Quincey isn't very good

Come on, you know that litterature Nobel prizes are bullshit and only political, thats not the best way to prove that we had better writers.

Sure, but it's the only thing you can put forward to disprove bad faith claims like:

>French writers are unknown lol
>they're not very good either XD

It wasn't a matter of quality but presence in literature

Also the laureates aren't rubbish just because the prize is politically oriented.

Sartre deserved the prize, even if he was a 100% cancerous and dishonest leftard.

What would the best repart of heavy cavalry be, then?
Besides, yet another article cites the winged hussars as heavy cavalry:
Renaissance to 20th century Edit
Armoured cavalry, in the form of the Gendarme, was at its highest as a proportion of the total number of combatants in many Renaissance armies, especially in France. North-Central and Eastern Europe saw the emergence of winged hussars that proved a decisive factor in the territorial gains of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and its wars with Sweden, Muscovy and the Ottoman Turks.

Later, the cuirassier was the main form of heavy cavalry, beginning in 1484 with the 100-man strong regiments of Austrian kyrissers for the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian. In the early 16th century heavy cavalry in the European armies was principally remodeled after Albanian stratioti of the Venetian army, Hungarian hussars and German mercenary cavalry units.
>he saw trough my ruse
A-alright, we'll renounce our claim to the title of best conqueror of the mediterrannean and whereabouts in favour of the chef one

Voltaire was mostly famous for his political commentary, while his plays were a success they didn't spread beyond France and his other works were histories.

Montesquieu didn't write any non political literature that i have heard of, if he has then he is most certainly not famous for it.

Ok yes rousseau wrote Julie which was a success in France at the time, he is only world famous due to his philosophical works


You didn't, but it was a caution against you producing random ones and saying they were the best just because you liked them

see above, i have read quite a few from that list and recognise most of them, although i am not a fan of french poetry or indeed an expert on all these french plays

>Sartre deserved the prize

Sartre was a twat who deserved nothing

They essentially just didn't give up more of their armour like in the west , i would however like to point out that the size of the horses and the size of the riders as well as the armour decided how "heavy" the cavalry was.
In the renaissance a few still used full plate armour right up into the early/mid 17th century ,
the early renaissance many had full plate armour but by the late the *standard* load out was a breastplate with tassets , a helmet and the left gauntlet, sometimes with arm jacks, over a coat of buff leather. The size of the horse and the manner in which it was used rather than the armouring became more important to the grading as the amount of armour used was reached and variation in levels of equipment for cavalrymen decreased.

Your second source cites hungarian hussars instead of winged hussars

British have more presence it literature

Look,i will accept that you have more of a presence in philosophy and political commentary and probably in playwriting (although we have the most famous one), but not in literature.

This, he ruined French thinking and science for at least 2 decades.

>Voltaire
>while his plays were a success they didn't spread beyond France

Completely wrong. Voltaire was the most famous poet and playwright in all Europe (remember French was the common language for the educated class, back then). And regarding his short stories like Candide:

"Today, Candide is recognized as Voltaire's magnum opus and is often listed as part of the Western canon; it is among the most frequently taught works of French literature. The British poet and literary critic Martin Seymour-Smith listed Candide as one of the 100 most influential books ever written."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candide

>Montesquieu didn't write any non political literature that i have heard of
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Letters

>Rousseau
>only world famous due to his philosophical works
No. His non-philosophical works are very important:

"Rousseau's autobiographical writings—his Confessions, which initiated the modern autobiography, and his Reveries of a Solitary Walker—exemplified the late 18th-century movement known as the Age of Sensibility, and featured an increased focus on subjectivity and introspection that later characterized modern writing."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau

Poland - best shitposters

These days, fortunately, Sartre's influence is even more dead than the Soviet Union itself.

>but not in literature

...ayy lmao

>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Letters
That one is quite political though

>light cavalry
>directly charging enemy

if they were light cavalry they would harass them not fucking bulldozer straight through they were medium cavalry

>Italy
>Best Explorers
What?

The only notable thing an Italian discovered was North America, and he called it India.

lol literally who are they

10/10 bait, user.
on a side note: don't discard Russian authors so easily

fine the polish ones were medium cavalry
Ok voltaire was a reasonably famous playwright, but upon further digging they were popular in Franc but don't appear to have spread, but in terms of literature he was known for his philosophical works
that i have heard of.
As to French you are confusing the 18th century with the middle ages

>persian letters
> not political

Rousseau is not famous for writing his confessions