Sarkozy salutes Britain

"France hasn't forgotten, she will never forget that when she was almost annihilated, Britain was at her side.  She will never forget the English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish blood mixed with the French blood in the mud of the trenches.  She will never forget the welcome the British people gave General de Gaulle and Free France.  She will never forget the heroic resistance of the British people without which all would have been lost.  She will never forget the fine young people who came from all over the British Empire and laid down their lives on the Normandy beaches and in the surrounding bocages.  As the last century's wars have shown: like two brothers, what the French people and the British people can accomplish together is far greater than what they can achieve separately."

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