To my surprice, I have just been reading that France had a better trained (and equipped) army than Nazi Germany 1939. Is that true?

Yes and had 44 active divisions

But Petan was an 84 Year old Geriatric who surrendered without Giving the French army a chance to fight

Remember DeGaul ran away before Paris was occupied he ran so fast he asked the British to save his family

as Germany Proved No matter How Big you are or how well Trained you are if you have useless (Generals) who made Bad or no decisions then you will lose

Even when the Germans was stationary for days because of the Traffic jam they caused they never told the British who could have bombed a stationary Target to scrap metal

Ending WW2 in May 1940

It was 1940 in the French Belgium border. The German troops have assembled the largest mechanized force the world had seen.The plan to cross into France through the Ardennes region was a brilliant idea. Still, from a logistics point of view, it was a disaster.It created a 250 km long traffic built up in the area, and luckily the French and British didn’t notice it. If the traffic jam were known, the course of World War II would have been different.

The offensive consisted of 42,000 vehicles, including 1,200 tanks the Bulk of the German Military in 1940

and Opportunity Lost because Petan and his Mob did not trust the Teliphone

As Rommel himself said, he who defends everything defends nothing... the French had a very long, heavily armed defensive line called the Maginot line that is what they call a "static" or non moving defense facing only one way, toward Germany. The Blitzkrieg was a very fast way of waging war with alot of movement that went thru Belgium and behind the line. Same tactic Schwarzkopf used when the US army defeated the Iraqi's in the gulf war. He found a weak spot and punched thru and attacked them from their flanks and from behind.

It is true that you read that.

Because all of France's tanks only worked in reverse. 

The speed at which they surrendered,  after Germany broke thru their defenses  was laughable. 

They clearly hadn't thought of the OBVIOUS, and were quickly overrun. 

This is true. The French even had bigger, more powerful tanks than the Germans, but didn't know how to use them. They spread them out across the entire line. The Germans concentrated their tanks at the weakest point in the French line, punched through and then exploited with everything they had. It was wildly successful. The architect was Heinz Guderian, a military genius.

because the germans didn;t fight the battes where the french thought they were/

doesn't matter how good your soldiers are, if your generals are crap

MOST of their equipment and troops were in the Maginot Line, a line of forts & bunkers between Germany & France.  The Germans bypassed the line by cutting thru Belgium, then hit the line from the back ................

Yes, that is true.

The problem was the government, which was overly weary of putting their foot down and risking an actual conflict. We now know that the Nazi's position was to try something, and if France or England would merely clear their throat, they would stop, pack up and return.

Those countries did not budge, so Hitler increased his weapon production (which ran against the conditions they were under) and kept being more daring still.

There is an old saying,  "A general is always ready to fight the last war again,  specially if they won."   The French were all set to do that with their defensive lines which were impressive.    But the Germans had changed warfare with the development of the Blitzkrieg,  a fast moving war with no defensive lines.   The Germans simply bypassed the French defenses and came around so fast the French just surrendered.  

Germany used the Blitzkrieg tactic which involved fast-moving Panzer tanks deployed to France's weak points.