now let´s have some conspiracy theories related to this topic.
after french revolution late in 18th century, nationalistic ideas were widespread all over europe and most parts of the world. as a result of this many non-nationalistic empires disappeared.
It was not coincidence that "young turks" (Les Jeunes Turcs, jön türkler) had found their perfect place in france. young turks were famous for their nationalistic ideas. they did their job perfectly and destroyed a six century years old empire less than fifteen years.
lets jump to present.
it is not coincidence that nationalistic kurdish people which involved terrorist activities have found their perfect place, again in france. of cource also other sisters of france are helping them such as belgium, germany, denmark... etc.
this year american embassy in ankara had a suicide bomber and one security guard was killded one news reporter lost her one eye. that bomber was checked by german police in germany and after he show his french passport, german police let him free. just an example but not coincidence of course, thousands of french passported...
anyway.
nationalistic ideas did their job well for the last two centuries and these ideas are being replaced something else now all over the world. globalisation, one world goverment, one electronic money... easy to take control small nation based countries compared to big empires. long live multinationalism, death to nationalism! obey the rulers of new world order!...
it costed two world wars bringing nationalism and i guess i will cost two world wars to sweep it away. get ready!
This is really good.. 
Though, I dont think it will cost another couple of wars to remove nationalism but multinationalism is taking over. People are mingling with eachother. The goods are produced by poor workforce in Asia with western capitals for consumption. China´s GDP almost doubled in last 10 years because of the new world order.
However, I think you have put too much emphasis on France in the first bit.
