French foreign policy in the EE - a real change or an illusion ?

[Adrian II]

So what do you reckon the odour is here?
Could it possibly be the stench of Saint Germain and the great white brotherhood .The valiant struggle of true patriots against the international financier/communist cabal ?

I smell a hint of Elders conspiring against world piece, eastern slope, 1900-ish. Am I close?