Frogs and The French
- The French custom of eating frog legs is the source of the English use of the derogatory nickname "frogs" for French people.
- Queen Elizabeth I is known to have nicknamed the French François, Duke of Anjou, who unsuccessfully courted her in 1579, "frog" - on account of a frog-shaped earring he had given her. It is unclear whether this releates to the later English application of the nickname to all French people.
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