presidents have generally pursued closer relations with British leaders, including Jacques Chirac, who worked with Tony Blair even during the Iraq War. While he was visiting Montreal, Quebec, Canada in order to attend the World's Fair in 1967, De Gaulle expressed his sympathy for the Quebec sovereignty movement, with the "Vive le Québec libre!" speech. This speech was highly regarded by supporters of the Quebec independence movement. However, it was widely criticized by French citizens, the French press, and some French-Canadians, including the future-Canadian prime minister, Pierre Trudeau, a French-Canadian from Montreal. In short, De Gaulle advocated for a strong French presence among the great nations and of France's independence from both the United States and the Soviet Union. See also 112 Gripes about the French Anglophobia Anti-French sentiment in the United States Anti-Canadian sentiment Anti-Quebec sentiment Cheese-eating surrender monkeys Foreign relations of France Franco-American relations Freedom fries Germanophobia Pardon my French Speak White Xenophobia Monkey hanger Anti-Swedish Sentiment References Further reading Hagemann, Karen. "Francophobia and Patriotism: anti-French images and sentiments in Prussia and Northern Germany during the Anti-Napoleonic Wars." French History 18.4 (2004): 404-425. Hagemann, Karen. “Occupation, Mobilization, and Politics: The Anti-Napoleonic Wars in Prussian Experience, Memory, and Historiography.” Central European History 39#4 (2006), pp. 580–610, online Huc-Hepher, Saskia. "‘Sometimes there’s racism towards the French here’: xenophobic microaggressions in pre-2016 London as articulations of symbolic violence." National Identities 23.1 (2021): 15-39 online. MacKenzie, Raymond N. "Romantic Literary History: Francophobia in The Edinburgh Review and The Quarterly Review." Victorian Periodicals Review 15.2 (1982): 42-52 online. Maclean, Ruth. "‘Down With France’: Former Colonies in Africa Demand a Reset Decades after independence, many African countries are increasingly troubled by the ongoing influence of their former colonial power" New York Times 18 April 2022 Newman, Gerald. "Anti-French propaganda and British liberal nationalism in the early nineteenth century: Suggestions toward a general interpretation." Victorian Studies 18.4 (1975): 385-418. online Sosnowski, Thomas, and Vaughn Baker. "Bitter farewells: Francophobia and the French émigrés in America." The Consortium on Revolutionary Europe 1750-1850 (1992) 21: 276-283. Varouxakis, Georgios. Victorian political thought on France and the French (Springer, 2002). External links Detailed chronicle on American Francophobia "Europe unites in hatred of French" "French outpace Americans in French-bashing: poll" (Reuters) France