Told you French were going to Suffer

French flags no longer are flying high and proud outside the Sofitel Hotel in midtown Manhattan. The French-owned hotel chain, part of the French hotel company Accor whose units include U.S. motel chains Red Roof Inn and Motel 6, replaced the flags with the Stars and Stripes as a peace offering to its American guests.

Bunch of Pussys

Marc Refabert, founder of fromage.com, a Tours, France-based distributor of French cheese with about 8,000 customers in the United States, said he's been getting hostile e-mails from some of his American customers. He's even divided them into three categories -- the polite rebuffs, the "shocking" letters, and some that said "Vive la France."

Nice one of them had to have come from a memer of this board

But Serge Bellenger, president of French-American Chamber of Commerce, said that although he's noted a few isolated incidents of anti-French sentiment against French businesses, he doesn't see it rising to a bigger wave against all French products.

"I think the American and French business communities will respond to it accordingly if something like that happens," Bellenger said. "You have to remember that 50 percent of all international trade is between Europe and the United States, and France has about $120 billion of direct investment in the U.S. That's a lot of French business and a lot of money."

Not anymore I say out of 120 billion they will be left with 50% by the time this is over

Article http://money.cnn.com/2003/03/13/news/compa...fitel/index.htm