But then the French have always had a soft spot for perfidious Albion's northern neighbours.
In France, for centuries, the idea of sharing military resources with perfidious Albion would have been unthinkable.
Replace the Perfidious Albion with the Americans and the comparison is almost perfect.
In the Washington Post last week Charles Krauthammer wrote the latest of a stream of articles about the Perfidious Reply.
The 1896 Democratic presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan ran against deflation, which he blamed on the gold standard and perfidious Republican bankers.
Even with the perfidious Turks and Jordanians, some co-operation has proved possible.
Yet many Labour supporters, especially the trade unions, have long disdained liberals of all sorts, whom they regard as ideologically perfidious, bourgeois dilettantes.
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But even if the French government is deaf to the pleas of its own researchers, could French pride stand being trumped by perfidious Albion?
So instead she has chosen to recount the soap-operatic lives of the surrealists, of their promiscuous, scandalous, perfidious and self-obsessed goings-on, all in the name of revolution.
Or has the NHS row confirmed a deeper Tory hunch: that just as leopards have spots, Lib Dems are perfidious and sneaky, making the coalition an obstacle to bold policymaking?
He has taken quick advantage of this perfidious clause.
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The Romans were severely tested in the three Punic wars but their struggles against a worthy, if barbaric and perfidious, enemy were a necessary feature of their emergence as the dominant power.
Many of his official informants assume that a person of Anglo-Saxon appearance, speaking fluent Turkish, must belong to the long line of spies and troublemakers who have meddled in this part of the world on behalf of perfidious Albion.
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No less significant than what Livni's perfidious collaboration with the administration against her own government tells us about her character is what the nature of the Obama administration's assault on the Netanyahu government tells us about Livni's central strategic platform.
At the right Brussels dinners, speakers of a certain grandeur (an ex-commissioner, say, or a bigwig from the European Parliament) win table-thumping applause by denouncing perfidious Albion, before noting solemnly that the Lisbon treaty, for the first time, allows countries to get out.
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