[rdkent]

My wife and I have been to Paris twice in the last three years. Each time we rented an apartment and spent a week. Neither of us speaks French, but we learned enough to get by. We found the Parisians to be very friendly and helpful. Definitely friendlier than New Yorkers. Before people start posting that we are some kind of left wing anti-American Americans, we are somewhere to the right of Genghis Khan. I experienced anti-American attitudes in Paris in 1962 when I visited in 1962 while stationed in Germany and expected even worse today. We were very pleasantly surprised.