Without Russia, France Doomed to Defeat and Humiliation – French Journalist
SputnikNews.com
08.06.2015
Commenting on the breakdown in relations between France and Russia, French journalist Nicolas Bonnal argued that France’s most sensible cultural and political figures, from nineteenth century writer Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand to twentieth century president Valery Giscard d’Estaing, understood that Russia is France’s natural ally.
In an article for the French web journal Boulevard Voltaire, Bonnal appealed to the realm of history, arguing that “wisdom has always argued in favor of a Franco-Russian friendship. Indeed, our rapprochement with the Anglo-Saxons, cultivated by the colonialists and the bourgeois elites in the nineteenth century, has brought defeats and humiliation for France.”
Recalling that former president d’Estaing was personally invited in 2012 to mark the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Borodino, Bonnal cited the president’s appeal on the occasion. D’Estaing noted that “France and Russia fought on the same side during the two world wars…We spent more time together than fighting one another, since France has almost always been a strategic partner of Russia.”
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