Some interesting bits from a customer at the Diner that my dad regularly talks to, who just spent a while travelling all over France. One general thing was that while Bush obviously wasn't particularly popular, at the same time apparently Chirac seemed to be equally unpopular, on the reasoning that his policies were killing tourism.
      Also, at one point this American couple were relaxing on their hotel balcony; they soon saw a small group of students carting effigies of Chirac and Bush and burning differing flags as they moved down the street beneath the balcony. As odd as that duality was, soon after that a much, much larger crowd of students came from both sides of the street and dispersed the first, burning-things group. The couple's main remark upon this was that as they watched the BBC later on, they saw that very first burning-things group, but there was not a single mention of the second, larger group of students. Ah, objective reporting.