What came through loud and clear at Normandy was GWB's near complete dominance over Chirac.
Chirac was extremely nervous, no doubt as a results of the accumulating "goods"we have on the French.
GWB has worked his strange magic on Chirac turning him into a submissive wimp which he is.
Chirac has problems...Bush can make these problems far worse if he so decides: for example, I believe he could easily bribe the Chinese and the Russians into kicking the French off the UN Security Council and replacing them with the Germans. The Germans would be enthusiastic about joining, and thus it would split the Franco-German alliance.
Regards, Ivan