Against all the odds it will be France against England in the semifinal at the Stade de France next Saturday rather than the Australia v New Zealand encounter most people expected.
Wales' defeat in France meant England won the Six Nations title but it was little consolation for Johnson.
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They play France and England away and face Wales at home where the visitors have an outstanding record.
According to Kraft, France, England, Italy and Germany have the hottest castle markets.
"We look at all the games in France and England, " said the coach.
With a perfectly surmountable game against France, England or Ukraine in the quarterfinals, they may play deep into the tournament.
Argentina, France, England and Italy may all have teams of more talented players, but Brazil won the tournament and they didn't.
Last year, Italy held second-half leads against France, England and Ireland, but finished with just one point from an 18-18 draw against Wales.
France and England remained at loggerheads throughout the proceedings, but the principle of settling international disputes by discussion was well and truly established.
After magnificent wins over France and England and a successful tour to Argentina, confidence was flying in the Welsh camp and anything seemed possible.
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The current trip began in Kuwait and Afghanistan and will continue with scheduled stops in Jordan, Israel, the West Bank, Germany, France and England.
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The trees were grown for four years at two sites in France and England, in order to see how they fitted in with the local environment.
Wales' defeat in France ensured England secured the Six Nations title, but as Johnson admitted afterwards, it was little consolation after their Grand Slam dreams turned sour.
But victories over France and England have given us confidence.
Through a whirlwind tour of Germany, France and England, they assembled the eye-popping run of European masters that certainly overshadowed and most would say outdid the larger American section.
Jones, 28, would have been out of contract at the end of the season and he has spurned interest from clubs in France and England to remain at the Ospreys.
It was surprising, then, to see the Gadhafi regime still hosting journalists from the U.S., France and England five months into an aerial bombing campaign that had been led by these three governments.
The 36-0 defeat by South Africa in the second game in France took England to a new low but Catt insisted both he and the squad as a whole had recovered from the experience.
The fact that it survived, he argues, had far more to do with the fraught power games among France, England, and Austria than with any real will of the Italians to exist as a nation.
In 1917 at a meeting of the Imperial War Conference, it was acknowledged that venereal diseases were not being contained either in France or England and they were seriously impeding the fighting capacity of the forces.
When the French Revolution led to a major war between France and England, Washington refused to accept entirely the recommendations of either his Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, who was pro-French, or his Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, who was pro-British.
It is true that the surviving evidence of an intensely religious society is impressive: the superb gothic cathedrals of the 13th century, the fine poetry of the French and German epics, the leading universities of France, England and Italy, a whole world of sculpture and manuscript painting.
New Zealand, Australia, England France will compete in a tournament in a Four Nations Series in 2009.
James Wynne put France ahead but England got back into it through Leon Pryce, Gleeson and Maurie Fa'asavalu.
Countries like Germany, France, and England periodically undertake painful socioeconomic reforms in order to adapt to changing international markets.
In its opening 1-1 draw with France here, England's poor passing meant the team controlled the ball for just 35% of the game.
However, the return of talisman kicker Jonny Wilkinson inspired successive victories over Samoa, Tonga, Australia and France to give England the chance of becoming the first team to retain the title.
It employs about 10, 000 people across 13 sites in Northern Ireland, England and France.
In 1744, in the War of the Austrian Succession, France declared war on England.
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