"French Surrender" is often used as a
kicker in
The Onion's hilarious
Our Dumb Century.
Since then, it has been borrowed by the fine folks at FARK.com as one of their headline cliches (in the somewhat-corrupted form "France surrenders").
The
Our Dumb Century headlines (narrow your browser window to capture that newspaper feel):
Sunday, September 3, 1939
WA-
HEADLINE CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
Hitler Invades Britain, Belgium, Denmark, Norway,
Netherlands, France, Greece, Yugoslavia,
Hungary, Luxembourg
French Surrender
After Valiant
Ten-Minute Struggle
Monday, December 8, 1941
DASTARDLY JAPS ATTACK COLONIALLY
OCCUPIED U.S. NON-STATE
Congress Declares War
After Sneak Attack on
U.S. Imperial Holding
FDR: 'We Conquered the
Hawaiians First'
French Surrender
Friday, August 10, 1945
Nagasaki Bombed 'Just
for the Hell of it'
SECOND A-BOMB WOULD HAVE JUST SAT
AROUND ANYWAY, SAY GENERALS
FRENCH SURRENDER
Wednesday, August 15, 1945
French Unveil
'Arc de Capitulation'