I’ve read several reviews of David Pryce-Jones’ book
Betrayal about the French Foreign Office. I put one online for my readers, its too important.
Looking in the archives, Pryce-Jones finds that for nearly 200 years, since Napoleon, French foreign policy has been directed at treating Arabia as their protectorate and England as their enemy. Even before the world wars, France focused more on England than on Germany.
Israel actually has an enemy in France in the Quai d'Orsay and so do the French.