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April 18, 2005
The Roots of U.S.-French Enmity
Matthew Price, writing in the April 10, 2005 edition of the Boston Globe, said "the vogue for freedom fries may have waned, but more than two years after the diplomatic dustup between George W. Bush and Jacques Chirac over the Iraq war the books on the fractured state of Franco-American relations keep coming." Some books cited are: Denis Boyles' ''Vile France: Fear, Duplicity, Cowardice and Cheese'' (Encounter), Richard Z. Chesnoff's ''The Arrogance of the French: Why They Can't Stand Us - and Why the Feeling Is Mutual'' (Sentinel), John J. Miller's and Mark Molesky's ''Our Oldest Enemy: A History of America's Disastrous Relationship with France'' (Doubleday) - the very titles suggest that while George W. Bush may have made nice with Jacques Chirac on his most recent trip to Europe, certain segments of American society are never going to give France a break.
"But according to the French scholar Philippe Roger," Mr. Price said, "such Francophobic biliousness may be nothing compared to the deep-seated antipathy that our Gallic cousins feel for us. Nevermind the Marquis de Lafayette - or Benjamin Franklin's cozy memories of his years whipping up support for the nascent republic in the salons of Paris. The French have had it in for American civilization from the beginning." But does it matter? Here's more.
Posted by Munir Umrani at April 18, 2005 05:32 AM
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