But De Villepin’s biggest surprise came when he claimed his country shares with Britain “a refusal to surrender.”
He seemed to forget France’s surrender to Germany by signing an armistice in June 1940.
De Villepin, 49, also claimed France was a “reliable” ally to the US, despite leading opposition to the Iraq war.
He made no mention of how furious Americans famously branded French president Jacques Chirac and his cronies as “cheese-eating surrender monkeys.”