Britannia may think it ruled the waves, but on Tuesday it is a French warship that will dominate the English Channel.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb She is the pride of the French navy the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the Charles de Gaulle.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb She is 261m (285 yards) long, 64m (70 yards) wide and weighs 42,000 tons dwarfing all the other vessels taking part in the International Fleet Review.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tDurant la parade navale qui c\u00e9l\u00e9brait le bicentenaire de la fameuse victoire britannique, un commentateur de radio s’est \u00e9cri\u00e9, \u00e0 propos des sous-marins nucl\u00e9aires fran\u00e7aise: \u00ab Et les Fran\u00e7ais ma\u00eetrisent toutes les technologies qui se trouvent dans ces unit\u00e9s, et tous les armements !<\/em> \u00bb Cette description contraste dramatiquement avec la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 des unit\u00e9s britanniques \u00e9quivalentes, o\u00f9 ni l’acc\u00e8s aux propulseurs nucl\u00e9aires ni le contr\u00f4le des armes nucl\u00e9aires ne sont autoris\u00e9s \u00e0 d’autres personnes que des militaires et des fonctionnaires de nationalit\u00e9 am\u00e9ricaine.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tAvec la pr\u00e9sence du Charles-de-Gaulle<\/em> et des autres unit\u00e9s fran\u00e7aises aux c\u00f4t\u00e9s des unit\u00e9s de la Royal Navy, le bicentenaire n’a fait que souligner combien, en deux cents ans, l’Angleterre a perdu de cette situation qui fit sa fiert\u00e9 et sa puissance: l’autonomie et la capacit\u00e9 de son arme la plus superbe, la Royal Navy. Par contraste, la France, avec bien plus de vicissitudes et de revers dans son Histoire, a su conserver son rang dans la mati\u00e8re qui compte le plus : la souverainet\u00e9 de sa puissance. Voil\u00e0 ce que, 200 ans plus tard, Trafalgar nous a montr\u00e9.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 29 juin 2005 \u00e0 19H38<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Les Britanniques ont \u00e9t\u00e9 les premiers \u00e0 le reconna\u00eetre. Voici ce qu’en disait BBC.News lundi: \u00ab Britannia may think it ruled the waves, but on Tuesday it is a French warship that will dominate the English Channel. \u00bb She is the pride of the French navy the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the Charles de Gaulle. \u00bb… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}