French resentments were aroused once more by the signing of a treaty between Britain and the United States late in 1794, a treaty that, in the popular mind, carried Jay's name, for he had served as the U.S. negotiator.
PARIS, March 2 — French concern, resentment and be wilderment have greeted the news of demonstrations against President Pompidou in Chicago and New York.
That was a film about the French-Algerian resentment of the racist motherland, and in that movie there was no question of any rapprochement between the races, between the rulers and the ruled; there was just violence, fear and pain and Dioucounda Koma's character symbolised all three.
Ressentiment – caused by an intense mix of envy, humiliation and powerlessness – is not simply the French word for resentment.
His thoughtful nature makes him both a true believer and a potential rebel; his devotion to French ideals intensifies his resentment of French practices.
Part of the decline reflects American resentment of French opposition to the war in Iraq, according to some visitors.
Flemish resentment of French influence continued, however, and in 1297 the count of Flanders, Guy of Dampierre (1278 1305), entered an alliance with Edward I of England against Philip IV of France.
In Guinea, writes Mr French, "there was mounting resentment over the way China was seen to be…despoiling the environment, dispossessing powerless landholders or flouting local laws, fuelling corruption, and, most of all, empowering awful governments".
Resentment against French and foreign Jews (large numbers from Germany and Romania had arrived by the early 1930s) led to "a new wave of antisemitism," detailed by a report put out by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
This time, Prime Minister Tony Blair has resisted calls to ban French beef despite widespread resentment over the fact that more than a year after the European Commission ended its ban on exports of British beef France still refuses to import it.
