Baker caught the attention of the world's media with his run to the second round of the French Open last year after almost a decade spent battling injury.
Even so, mindful of the money pumped into the island each year by the French government, only a tenth or so of Corsicans today want outright independence.
Eighth seed Stosur has never beaten the older Williams sister in three previous meetings, but has won 14 of her last 15 matches on clay and reached the last four of the French Open last year.
He and Mr Chirac exchanged such strong words at the summit that the French president, in a fit of pique, promptly cancelled the traditional end-of-year Anglo-French summit.
Their legitimacy rested on their role in the savage eight-year war of independence against the French (largely mythologised, since many spent that war outside the country) which made them the guarantors of the state's principles.
Swede Soderling had a tremendous 2009, reaching the final of the French Open, but this year had lost in the first round of all his tournaments.
His ranking has gone up so far this year, but not very much, from 150 at the end of last year to 118 before the French Open began.
The 31-year-old has previous experience of the French mountains and, ater his double Tour misery, he looks a strong bet for a high finish.
The subject of the portrait is of two-year-old Raoul Levert, the son of a carpenter in the French village of Auvers, 25 miles north of Paris, where the artist spent some time before he died.
Within the same year, 1789, both the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the American Bill of Rights were drafted.
Prof Hunter said Homecoming Scotland and the 250th anniversary of the fall Quebec next year will come as French-speaking people were "more resurgent" in their campaign to be independent of the rest of Canada.
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The rejection of the proposed EU constitution by French and Dutch voters this year was the culmination of long-simmering discomfort with the goals of ever-closer and ever-larger union.
Comminges, who has just picked up the Supporters Club's Player of the Year award, joined Swindon from French Ligue 2 side Stade de Reims last July.
The 31-year-old, who is out of contract with the French club in the summer, has agreed a two-year contract at Ibrox.
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Known to the Warriors fans as "Dave", the 36-year-old Taumoepeau joined Worcester in the summer of 2005 from French club Bourgoin.
She will take on Virginie Razzano in the second round, with the French player having enjoyed her greatest success when upsetting Serena Williams in the first round of last year's French Open.
Having managed to win only one seat in Quebec at the 2008 election, this year the NDP won 59 (of a total of 75) in the French-speaking province.
The 53-year-old French cosmetics firm has been the subject of takeover speculation ever since its founder, Jacques Courtin-Clarins, died in March.
The result is that the total value of all French sales last year FFr8.5 billion was considerably less than those at either Sotheby's or Christie's.
The relationship with Beauvoir propelled this twenty-six-year-old tyro into the highest reaches of French culture.
Everton confirmed the acquisition of the 30-year--old French international on the club's Web site.
True, the outgoing president of the French Senate was forced by public opinion last year to leave his official residence, after he tried to hang on to it.
Over the past year, the campaign was covered in the Western media and garnered the support of notables such as the French and Canadian prime ministers' wives as well as international film stars like Lindsay Lohan, Colin Firth, Emma Thompson, Robert Redford and Juliette Binoche.
At around 77 basis points, the premium to insure UK five-year gilts is 55% less than the cost of insuring equivalent French government debt.
According to the Potato Processors'Association, sales of French fries have fallen over the past year by 10 percent, the largest single drop in the last fifty years.
If the strategy fails to revive Carrefour's French hypermarkets by the end of next year, some investors will demand that the firm be taken to the charcuterie counter and carved up.
If Ireland can get quick ball to their backs and take the game to the French like they did in their Grand Slam winning year of 2009, the first Six Nations game at the Aviva Stadium could be one to saviour.
For the first time in an almost 10-year run of urban design conferences held around the world, the French Minister of Sustainable Development selected New York and its zoning innovations for study.
More than 500 French women have had the implants removed since last year, according to the French government agency that evaluates the safety of medical products.
The agency opted not to take any action against the 37-year-old American in connection with an incident in the French Riviera town of Beaulieu-sur-Mer on March 17.
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