For the French commune of Cherbourg-en

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Australia rarely makes the headlines in France but when it does, it’s usually for something bad. And from a French perspective, Australia’s decision to turn its back on a deal with France in favor of a nuclear submarine technology offer from Britain and the United States is bad – very bad.

The French feel not only disappointed but deceived, betrayed.

Speaking on France Info, the French equivalent of ABC news radio, Foreign Minister Jean-Yves le Drian used the expression “stab in the back”. Newspaper The Parisian declared “In 48 hours, the ‘contract of the century’ has become the commercial snub of the century”, while according to to the French business weekly Challenges, it was equivalent to “a stab in the heart, which no one in France had seen coming.” A Trafalgar shot from which Naval Group will take years to recover.

The Battle of Trafalgar, of course, was the naval engagement of 1805 which phone number library effectively ended Napoleon’s ambition to invade England and established British naval supremacy for the next century. Even taking into account the usual hyperbole of the French press, and the fact that the expression “Trafalgar shot” (trafalgar shot) can be used in many contexts in French, it is certainly not insignificant that it has appeared more than once in the French reactions to the cancellation of the contract following a new pact between the Great Brittany, Australia and the United States.

For the French commune of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, headquarters of the Cherbourg naval base where part of the project was to be carried out, the cancellation of the contract will be “a small social and economic earthquake”.

The idea of ​​the Anglosphere as something more than a group of people who speak the same language is widely mocked by Anglophones themselves. But for foreigners, and for the French in particular, it is a simple and obvious reality. What is the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, after all, if not an alliance of “Anglo-Saxon powers”, so much so that it excludes countries like France and Japan while including New Zealand? , which is not at all a power?