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At sixty, is it time to put an end to “romanticism”? On this anniversary of the Élysée Treaty, a text of reconciliation signed on January 22, 1963 by General de Gaulle and Chancellor Adenauer, the Franco-German relationship, described as a “couple” in Paris but a “motor” in Berlin – “normal, we are engineers”, smiles a German official – coming out of long months of hesitation and bickering.