The recent history of cultural exchange between France and the United States would appear to be defined by "freedom fries" and boycotts against Beaujolais-or, on the other side of the Atlantic, by enraged farmers toppling statues of Ronald McDonald. But this dismal state of affairs is a long way from the mutual admiration that followed World War II, epitomized in a 1958 cover of Look magazine that declared "Brigitte Bardot conquers America."...
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