Would you mind sharing your source of the "good words", either here or via PM?
I have heard a lot of speculation recently about new routes and the only ones I really give a grain of salt to are the ones that come from somewhere inside NW.
If there is in fact a new non-stop MSP-CDG, this will be nice for award redemption and the like, but it's still not the dramatic route changes that I hope for (and expect soon) from NW. It's overlap to the DTW-CDG service, but I can understand if the need has arisen to create more capacity on the major SkyTeam hub-to-hub routes. With any luck, it will be a dual-service with NW A333 and an AF A340 or B747. Would love to see some AF birds around the airport.