For France and the U.S., more fraternité than you’d think

You have to believe that there will be more talk of fraternité than of Freedom Fries at Tuesday night’s state dinner for French President François Hollande. The fries things was a whole decade ago, after all, when Gallic opposition to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq irked some American politicians, inspiring them to rewrite the menus in congressional cafeterias. What better way to insult the French and make them feel unwelcome than through the culinary arts? But the French should feel right at home here in the capital of the country they helped create. That lofty view, espoused by such statesmen as Thomas Jefferson and John Kerry, sees France as America’s Founding...