[JDGreen123]

Don't forget that France was a hotbed of anti-Semitism in the past. The infamous Dreyfus Affair became a world scandle in the 1890's.

The Dreyfus Affair

[anapikoros]

The Dreyfus affair was the stimulus Herzel needed to start formulating his ideas on Zionism as a response to anti-semiticism. If Herzel was the father of Zionism was France then the Mother - history evolves in strange ways.