This chapter examines France’s grand strategy of “great power reincarnation,” which corresponds, very much in the spirit of this book, to a post-sovereign form of strategic thinking. The nation-state of France suffered a protracted decline as a great power that extended back to the nineteenth century. However, the country’s attachment to this position of greatness not only remained intact but became reinvigorated by its traumatizing defeat in World War II. Although they face the material reality of decline, French policymakers believe that they can make the European Union (EU) into a form of compound great power. This national narrative repeatedly justified trading off French national autonomy in exchange for designing European-level state capacity. Institutional arrangements such as the European Single Market and Economic and Monetary Union are, as of today, the most important constraints on French sovereignty and, at the same time, the most central components of its grand strategy.