Apparently the French PM of the day, Guy Mollet, really proposed it. It seems to me like an incredibly harebrained scheme. Is there any chance that it would have gone anywhere, had it been made public? Or would Mollet find himself in a padded room somewhere outside Paris by the end of the week?
Thread from yesterday in GQ: NBC Nightly News: France offered to merge with UK.
Thanks, Northern Piper. The gerbils of the SDMB search engine must have been tired; it didn’t reveal that thread.