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Nonsense, that's just standard diplomacy - no reason to purposefully insult an ally.

> Nonsense, that's just standard diplomacy - no reason to purposefully insult an ally.

Can you name a comparative example of the US renaming a street at the request of an ally?

Your example comes from 1881, about 75 years before the US would become anything close to a superpower. So the simplest explanation is that the French simply agreed that it sounded weird in English to have it on all official letters, in stead of a superpower bullying it's allies into submission.

There's an opposite example, search for Boris Nemtsov Plaza.

> There's an opposite example, search for Boris Nemtsov Plaza.

This is an 'opposite example' in the sense of the US modifying a street name to intentionally spite a country (naming a street after a Russian dissident to spite Putin), not an 'opposite example' in the sense I was requesting: a case of the US modifying a street name to appease an ally, like France did.

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