Macron:
1778 Voltaire & Franklin met in Paris. Lafayette fought alongside George Washington.
1792 Washington became citizen of France & appointed Charles L'Enfant to plan the new city of Washington.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We did not pass it to our children in the bloodstream...
You can play with fears and angers for time but they do not construct anything. Anger only freezes and weakens us. As FDR said: "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself",
Personally, I do not share the fascination for new strong powers, the abandonment of freedom and the illusion of nationalism. The United States and Europe have a historical role in this respect...
'Vive notre amitie'