Over at another Euroblog dominated by US expats, Fistful of Euros, Scott Martens also made a very good post recently which I just found. He takes on the meme that no French company in the top 25 was founded in the last 40 years, while 19 of the Top 25 American firms were - but he finds one French and two American firms that fit the bill.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}