That's a pretty ironic statement, considering we're heading into well-trod "french are conceited, arrogant assholes" stereotype. While making an arrogant, conceited, assholish statement.
I couldnt POSSIBLY dislike the practically ingrained sense of superiority and disdain anglos have for the french, as demonstrated so beautifully by Spider. The fullout loathing and caricaturization of most things even tangetially related to the french or France so endemic in anglo pop culture has no effect whatsoever. That's not what makes me "crazy".
No, you're right, it's all just jealousy that we weren't as effective and ruthless at being colonialist conquerors. Being a world power had no meaning whatsoever, and equated to basically "jerking off", because it wasn't as large as the brit one. By that metric literally every country in the world has always been "jerking off", and still is. But I wouldn't want to get in the way of your colonialist masturbation. I guess being proud of being the biggest murdering assholes on the planet is still cool, as long as it's used to shit on the french of course.
Not to mention all the "overcorrecting" (because this is constantly on every french person's mind, their entire lives, weighed down by the awful realization that anglos are just so superior
) by rude assholes is pretty much always limited to Paris, which, this may blow your mind, is not the only city in France. A lot of parisians are rude to everyone, including other parisians and french. It's not because they hate you. They hate anyone who makes their day even slightly worse. NAB pretty much nails it when he says "equal opportunity snobs". Paris is by far the most visited city in France, for business or pleasure, and probably easy to equate to the entire country for tourists.