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Reaffirming its heralded position as guardian of global culture (cheese, wine, literature, extended vacations, and things that smell), the French and other EU nations have mustered up enough dander to protect the world against latest "risk of crushing American domination" Google.

Late last year, the sinister forces of Google reached an agreement with five major libraries to digitize 15 million books and make them accessible online.

Sacre Bleu!

You can see how this might be a problem.

In response, Jean-Nol Jeanneney, head of the French National Library, called on President Jacques Chirac to "make the collections of the great libraries in France and Europe more widely and more rapidly accessible on the Internet."

The creation of a European search engine would defend French and other languages by being published in their original tongues.

This last point has puzzled some as Google is published in over a 100 languages.

But the architects of this new online library see it as something much more symbolic of the fight against American cultural imperialism.

As written by Jeanneney, the digitized library presented the "risk of a crushing domination by America in the definition of the idea that future generations will have of the world."

For his next trick: expediting the mid-east peace process.