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Article: American images in today's France.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- June 22, 2007
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A well-worn shibboleth still much alive, and now wrong-headed, has it that France is inveterately anti-American; when, in fact, the country for the most part has never been more pro-American, or certainly in the forty years or so since I began visiting or working there. The decisive victory of Nicolas Sarkozy in the Presidential election in May followed by his party's triumphs in the National Assembly elections in June gives support to my contention. His socialist opponent made much of Sarkozy's pro-American sympathies both in foreign affairs and in his belief in 'Anglo-Saxon' ideas about reforming the French economy. According to the Guardian, 16 May, French commentators ...