Can’t speak for the other UK users of this site, but this sounds like good old fashioned Goosestepping down the Champs-Élysées stuff to me.
yes, and the French are panicking over Brexit more than anyone — until now there could be a “Big 3” dominating the EU, UK-France-Germany. Going forward, France will be the junior weaker partner in an EU increasingly dominated by Berlin.
No more British counter-weight to make the French able to stand up to Germany....