Statistics Saturday: Twenty Imaginary Eras In French History

• The Third Empire
• Restored Orleanism
• The Algiers Republic
• Bloisplosion
• Le Fin-du-Mer
• When Brittany Was But A Ballroom
• The Lesser Infantasy
• Clovis, Clovis, Clovis, Marc, Henri, and Danielle
• The Slendering of the Fattened Hats
• L’année des Ratons Laveur
• The Glass Languedoc
• The Seven Reigns of Queen Mercredi
• Too Many Saints-Marcel
• The Halving of the Mauve
• The Bois are Barque En Têt
• Nineteen Sixty-J
• Six Pragmatic Bretons and their Goat
• Nantes Énorme et le Poivre
• Reynard’s Truce of the Dances
• The Second Technocracy of Dreux

Source: This New Ocean: A History of Project Mercury, Loyd S Swenson Jr, James M Grimwood, Charles C Alexander.

Bonus: six of these are also titles of upcoming Doctor Who episodes.

Also bonus: I am way too proud of “The Bois are Barque En Têt” considering it only works to the tiny extent it does if you know that the Têt is the largest river in southwestern France and even then it isn’t actually “funny” so much as it is “adequately researched”.