From: pumpjackdude@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, July 9, 2017 at 3:11:07 PM UTC-5, khematite wrote:   
   > On Sunday, 9 July 2017 15:44:36 UTC-4, luisb...@aol.com wrote:    
   > > Bob Dylan asked his Paris audience whether it's true that "one Frenchman   
   is worth a thousand lives." Where does that come from?   
   > Google it and you only get two hits, both of which are references to Dylan's   
   having said it during his 1966 Paris concert. I'd guess that in Dylan's mental   
   state during that concert he somewhat mangled the original phrase "A thousand   
   Frenchmen can't be    
   wrong." That phrase had also appeared over the years as "Ten thousand   
   Frenchmen can't be wrong" and "Fifty thousand Frenchmen can't be wrong." In   
   1927, Sophie Tucker's hit song codified the phrase as "Fifty million Frenchmen   
   Can't Be Wrong," and was    
   followed by the 1929 Herbert Fields-Cole Porter Broadway musical with the same   
   title.    
   >    
   > In 1959, RCA Victor borrowed the phrase for Elvis' second album of gold   
   records, titled "50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong."   
        
   I would say it's more likely Dylan knew exactly what he was saying and   
   parlayed the expression into an attempt to compliment the French, perhaps?   
      
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