Watching Barbarian Week on the History Channel I learned that the chickenshit French tried to bribe the Vikings to leave Paris alone in 885. It didn't work then but the French have continued to hope the power of bribery will prevail. Just look at that culture. A nice story HERE about the party the Vikings had. For a terrific read on the French/Euro economy go HERE. I believe this was linked by Reynolds or somebody about a week ago.