If you are drowning and somebody throws you a life-jacket, does it really matter if he did so because he wants his picture in the papers?
Besides, since when is shivving England a bad thing?
Touche, mon ami. Actually, I am thankful for France's taking our side, and eventually having their own revolution, which help spread freedom and the idea of droits de homme. Although England still has their monarch, I suspect theirs was a bloodless revolution much on account of the USA's and France's travails.
I am puzzled by France's most recent history of appeasement to Nazism and Islam, though. I guess I need to think about this some more.