I believe some countries (like Germany) don't celebrate the war, as there see war as a bad thing not be be glorified.
Also, it's a naive British misconception that the French are a set of surrender monkeys. In reality the French had 1.69 million deaths and 4.26 million wounded during ww1 (much more than us, so much that I got confused thinking I had put the decimal point in the wrong place) and the French do not want another repeat. Therefore agreed to an armistice with the Germans in ww2 to protect their people.
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