Falling in Love with France, Again

Bye-bye freedom fries. It’s time to renew the venerable American love affair with France. On this Bastille Day, let’s remember that the Franco-American relationship, though sometimes difficult, has more often been a source of mutual delight and wonderment between the two great free and democratic republics.

Bye-bye freedom fries. After Nicolas Sarkozy’s words on behalf of Iranian democracy (and French diplomacy’s tough line on the Iranian bomb!), it’s time to renew the venerable American love affair with France. Nuclear power, effective intelligence services, and (yes!) healthcare that offers some useful examples to the United States – there’s a lot to like. Yes there are problems too of course. High unemployment, excessive taxation, and financial crisis to match America’s own. But on this Bastille Day, let’s remember that the Franco-American relationship, though sometimes difficult, has more often been a source of mutual delight and wonderment between the two great free and democratic republics that have together defined modern industry and modern culture. In The Scroll: Jeffrey Cimbalo, "France and Britain: Together Again" Jean Granville, "The Reason for the Season" Peter Worthington, "Rejected by the Foreign Legion" David Frum reviews Graham Robb's em>The Discovery of France<