Salvador de Madariaga said that following the French Revolution, Europeans have two homelands: his own and France. Since 1789 France has been present in mentalities as a generator of contemporary values linked to democracy and the nation. France has been generating exoticism and, above all, a cultural power only after the Second World War has been relegated by the United States. If Tzvetan Todorov, one of many French adoption, the problem of otherness arose from the French point of view as an 'us and them', which is adopted in this work is that of a francesista reversing direction look to analyze to what extent our image, generated upon us and, more importantly, our competition is the product of that factory attitudes and stereotypes is France and, especially, Paris