William's chief concern was to check the overgrowth of French power in Europe.
Electricité de France retains a virtual monopoly over the French power market.
"It was a movie about freedom of people when Algeria was under French power.
This vision underpinned the expansion of French power in Europe during the revolutionary and Napoleonic eras.
Pitt insisted that French power should be opposed at sea and in its colonial possessions, not on the Continent.
The French elite, far from wanting to abolish France, seek to enhance French power and influence through the EU.
In collaboration with French Roman Catholic missionaries (especially the Jesuit Gui Tachard), Phaulkon schemed to establish French power in Thailand.
To judge by official statements, it is also to perpetuate an important symbol of French power and pride.
Although these revolts were unwelcome distractions from the minister's efforts to project French power abroad, they did not pose a revolutionary threat.
It is the latest twist in a slow-burning affair whose daily trickle of ever more explosive revelations has drawn uncomfortably close to the center of French power.
-- the favored policy, on the eminently sensible grounds that if French power were eradicated, Russia would face new enemies in its place.
