Certainly, in musical comedies, French and American tastes rarely coincide.

The transparency of the building, so important to the architect, at times clashed with the French taste for privacy.

The Spanish fire and French taste for the bizarre.

Mr Sarkozy has not been to French taste during his incumbency.

Nevertheless Wagner decided to abandon it, presumably because he realised its subject matter was not to French taste.

"This collection represents 18th-century French taste," he said.

He had little sympathy for the German critics, and maintained that the best combination was English good sense with French taste.

The summer-house had been designed, in harmony with the French taste of the last century, from a classical model.

In the 18th century restrained interpretations of the French taste dominated Swedish architecture and design.

The influence of Sèvres was very strong and French taste was in the ascendancy.