[dorothy]

"France must not appear to be a simple appendix of the United States..."

Well, using the word "appendix" in the medical sense instead of the one apparently intended, it would appear that France indeed already appears to be an appendix -- a vestigal organ we can well live without.

[elbucko]

I beg to differ, the French, even in Quebec, are more like a hemorhoid on the bum of the world.