Paris - If the British Prime Minister, Mr Tony Blair, really wants to demonstrate his European sensibilities, then the French have found the perfect way - he must rename London's Waterloo train station, a member of President Jacques Chirac's RPR party said yesterday.
Waterloo Station celebrates the Duke of Wellington's victory in 1815 over Napoleon Bonaparte. "You will understand, I am sure, the discomfort which the French might feel . . . coming to Waterloo Station, having crossed the channel tunnel, which is a symbol of the co-ordination and co-operation between our two nations," a conservative French politician, Mr Florent Longuepee, wrote to Mr Blair.
He suggested calling the French station for cross-channel rail traffic Fontenoy Station after a 1745 French victory over the British.
