After Your Picasso Blue Period now a Picasa Pontiac. I think that anyone falling in Your ciopy basket may feel proud to go along with Holbein, Rubens etc. ...
No need to apoligize about frogs and France whether ... Italians aren't French (except Nice, the Savoy, and the Corse which were given for historical reasons to France end of XVIII-XIX century). We are just close relatives basically speaking two dialects of Latin (which infected much of English too) who, differently from our Spanish cousins, tend to fundamentally envy us behind their apparent, exterior superiority complex. LOL
Panta rei (everything flows)!