Do we love them more than the French, these avenues of trees?

Napoleon ordered the avenues of plane trees along the roads of France to give shade to his soldiers marching the routes. Now all these years later we all love them and find them such a typical French thing. The Depeche says we Anglo Saxons have baptised them " french style avenues"
Now not are they only threatened with disease but they are said to cause ' des dangers mortels" by drivers crashing in to them and being killed. Bernard Cazeneuve the minister of the interior has demanded a study to look at hazardous infrastructures and this will include trees.
A save our trees campaign might be needed, or I suppose it should be "save the trees" as they are not strictly ours.
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