‘Lots of people are more interested in Paris–Deauville or Lyon–Saint Tropez …’ On 6 July 1962, as Chancellor Adenauer makes an official visit to France, French cartoonist Jean Effel paints an ironic picture of how interested the French public are in the question of Franco-German rapprochement. In this month of July 1962, the people of France seem more interested in their summer holidays than in the good relations between de Gaulle and Adenauer and the Paris–Bonn axis (see the map on the wall behind the two leaders).