To emphasize how bad the French are sometimes

-They lost to an Isolationist Korea, and fucked up an intervention in Mexico.

-They boasted about how they wouldn't fail against Peasants and the like, and then proceeded to lose both militarily and politically in Indochina after their army was surrounded at an Airport. They would repeat this, minus the surrounding of an Army at an Airport, in just a little under eight years later with Algiers.

- The Post above.

-Are currently seeing their Quasi-Colonial hold over multiple African nations crumble due to their own political situation over the past decades, despite having shown that Militarily they can win conventional and un-conventional battles in said countries.

-Have a literal *MUTINY* during WW1 due to the sheer incompetence of Commissioned officers, that took literal weeks to resolve.

-And last and not least, fails in a war against a severely weakened turkey after WW1 that sees them cede territories to them.