As much as we like to bag the French for being cowards (I know I do). They did save North American's arse in the war of independence by blockading the English ships' retreat.
I personally dislike them- in a national sense- because they kept testing their fucking bombs in the Pacific, my backyard, and their secret service cowardly blew up the Rainbow Warrior in a major NZ port murdering somebody in the process. Of course, the arrogant fools got caught and when NZ allowed them to serve out the rest of their sentance on their home soil, they were quickly released and given medals of honour. The finks.
Still, they had the sense to stay out of a misguided money-grubbing adventure in the Middle East. Perhaps because they didn't own shares in Haliburton. And they seem to be showing good sense in regards to $cientology.