-WiscoDave
Friday, November 12, 2021
Courtaud & The Paris Wolf Attacks
"This is the story of Great Courtaud, the king wolf; The wolf that ruled all Central France like a ferocious despotic monarch; the wolf that drove a thousand men in flight before him; the wolf that shut up all Paris in a state of siege for three hard years of snow; the wolf that sent King Charles into poltroon hiding behind his castle walls of stone; the wolf that every day devoured a man as a dog might maul his daily ration bone."
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Good read. Was rooting for the wolf though.
ReplyDeleteToo bad we cant these wolf loose in DC.
ReplyDeleteThis is what you get when you disarm the peasants. The wolves in North America are the same species as across Europe and northern Asia, but they lived for 12,000 years alongside men who never left their house unarmed, and they don't attack humans except perhaps a single crippled wolf in utter desperation a few times in a century. Whenever possible they stay far away from anywhere humans go. To North American wolves, the scent of man is the scent of death; to a wolf in France, it may be the scent of a pen full of soft, easy to kill livestock - or of unarmed men, women, and children.
ReplyDeleteEuropean wolves are larger than those in NA, and historically more aggressive.
DeleteThat might account for that; also like you say; armed pioneers vs unarmed peasants.
Germany....in 1871 and 1940, they were just repeating what a wolf had already done 400 years before.
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