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The U.S. and France fought together again in both world wars of the early 20th century, but national interests and personalities always complicated the picture. At the Versailles Conference after World War I, French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau scorned U.S. President Woodrow Wilson for his reluctance to punish defeated Germany...
"How credible is the view that France could be 'forgiven' for taking a principled stand on a war that turned out so catastrophic a majority of politicians and voters in the U.S. now oppose it?" asks Jacques Mistral, head of economic research at the French Institute on Foreign Relations, and...
"Rien" - French for "nothing," famously the final diary entry by Louis XVI on the morning of his overthrow on July 14, 1789 - is exactly what the French are expecting out of Tuesday's White House summit between President Nicolas Sarkozy and President George W. Bush. The visit is expected to...
Jean-Jacques Lasne, SAN FRANCISCO
That's déjà vu, but with a difference. Three years ago a similar all-night E.U. marathon session ended in a celebration of the vaunted E.U. constitution. Then French President Jacques Chirac made the controversial decision to put the constitution to a referendum - which he lost on...