As the 60th anniversary celebrations of the D-Day landings approach on June 6th, deep political Franco-American differences remain.
Even Jacques Chirac, his predecessor, tried a Franco-American rapprochement in his early years, before the big fall-out over Iraq.
During his election campaign he made no secret of his admiration for America and his desire to mend Franco-American relations.
In the remote hills above Ukiah, a Franco-American partnership called Germain-Robin turns out luxury-priced brandies that regularly whup the grand Cognacs in blind tastings.
Though his CD, After You've Gone, treaded lightly on Gypsy swing, Jorgenson fully embraced his love of the genre with 2004's Franco-American Swing.
In October 2007 he engineered the purchase of Business Objects, a Franco-American software firm whose products are supposed to drive SAP's future growth.
This stage of Franco-American relations is approaching an end.
The rare show of Franco-American unity as French president Jacques Chirac joined forces with the Bush administration to punish Assad for murdering Hariri was the second cause of Syria's withdrawal from Lebanon.
Congress amused itself by changing French Fries to Freedom ones, and Laura Bush snubbed the opening gala of a show celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase, a symbol of ancient Franco-American co-operation.
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As ambassador, her fluent French, hard work and access to the highest officials in Washington and Paris eased the sting of such contentious Franco-American issues as NATO expansion and differences over the Middle East, U.N. leadership and trade.
And in 2005 EADS Sodern, a French maker of satellites' control and positioning systems and subsidiary of the Franco-German company EADS, said it would start to phase out its American supplier base.
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