It’s springtime in Paris, the official start of the 249th squabbling season between French and American politicians.

A ramble down memory lane in U.S.-French relations usually inspires recollections of heartwarming classics like U.S. Army Col. Charles Stanton in 1914 marching doughboys to Picpus Cemetery and, with an emphatic “Lafayette, we are here,” saluting the tomb of the marquis who fought alongside George Washington and persuaded France to bankroll the American Revolution.

The Trump Administration now plans to invigorate the merriment by slapping a 200% tariff on some 30 million bottles of  champagne France annually ships to the United States.

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