(FORTUNE Magazine) – PARIS -- Earlier this month, the in-house magazine for France's left-wing intellectuals came out with a cover that showed a jubilant Mickey Mouse flying over the Eiffel Tower. ''American Cultural Invasion,'' shouted the headline. ''Is This Mouse Dangerous?'' Appearing as it did just a few weeks after France was selected as the site for Europe's first Disneyland theme park, a cover story devoted to the cultural threat from across the Atlantic was scarcely surprising . . . In an apparent attempt to soothe French sensibilities, a company spokesman was quoted . . . as explaining that Disney was of French descent. The family's original name, the French are being told, was . . . D'Isigny. -- From an article in the Washington Post.