This chapter is about contemporary French writing and the phenomenon of Anglicisms. Anglicisms are scarcely a new phenomenon in French. A degree of cross-linguistic contamination has always been inevitable between such close neighbours as Britain and France. The issue of Anglicisms appears in France as an aspect of a much broader problem, namely the identity of Europe and its defence against perceived US domination in the economic, political and cultural fields. Hostility to Americanisation is one of the recurrent themes in contemporary French journalism and polemical writing and is a position to be found on both sides on the left-right divide.