[Footnote 8: Guibert, himself a Frenchman, praises the piety
and valor of the French nation, the author and example of
the crusades: Gens nobilis, prudens, bellicosa, dapsilis et
nitida .... Quos enim Britones, Anglos, Ligures, si bonis
eos moribus videamus, non illico Francos homines appellemus?
(p. 478.) He owns, however, that the vivacity of the French
degenerates into petulance among foreigners, (p. 488.) and
vain loquaciousness, (p. 502.)]