Chirac is shocked.

BRUSSELS (AFP) – French President Jacques Chirac defended his eye-brow-raising exit from an EU summit session, accusing the French head of Europe’s employer union of piquing French pride by daring to speak in English.
An ardent defender of the French tongue, Chirac said he had been “deeply shocked” to hear English on the lips of the Frenchman in a speech at the two-day European summit.