• Since 2004, when doping allegations against Armstrong first came to light in a book by French sports journalist Pierre Ballester, the foundation has experienced steady year-to-year revenue growth, according to financial records, with the exception of a dip from 2005 to 2006, the year Armstrong was cleared of allegations stemming from a 1999 drug test.

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  • Like Betsy Andreu, she first told her story in the French book "L.A. Confidentiel, " co-written by sports reporter David Walsh of London's Sunday Times.

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  • Though vilified when his book came out in French a year later, Mr Paxton's years in the provincial archives were hard to argue with.

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  • She spoke out in a 2003 book "L.A. Confidentiel, " published in French and subsequently translated into English, and later spoke to USADA for its investigation.

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  • An even more egregious omission, given that this book attempts to look at how cuisine defines French culture as a whole, is visual art: there is no mention of the sumptuous culinary still-lifes by Chardin, the countless Impressionist picnics, brioches by Bonnard or mealtimes by Matisse, images that have literally transformed food into art in a specifically French way.

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  • Matt Phillips backheeled the ball on to Sylvestre and with the home defence backing away, the French midfielder mirrored LuaLua by curling into the far right corner to book a place in the next round.

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  • While Mr Stora's book (a translation, at times awkward, of three volumes in French) encompasses the whole narrative of modern Algeria, from the first landings of the conquering French, through their ignominious departure and on to Algeria's present agony, Irwin Wall contents himself with just one episode of that narrative: the struggle for independence.

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  • The 1943 French comic book, "Red Rackham's Treasure, " included a shark-like submarine with dorsal fins and a tail.

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  • Three decades ago, the French government developed Minitel, a national communications network that allowed users to send messages, book train reservations and so on.

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  • Gareth Williams was one of them - he got into the idea when he found out how difficult it was to book a flight to visit his brother and go ski-ing in the French Alps.

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  • This intriguing book, written by a literature professor turned military historian, tells how the British and French convinced themselves during World War I that they were doing just fine on the battlefields.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • "It's no coincidence that the phrase 'je ne sais quoi' is used to describe something so beautiful and elegant that it is seemingly indescribable, " said Erin Swift, a Manhattan-based set designer, prop stylist and author of the new book, "French Accents: At Home With Parisian Objects and Details" (Clarkson Potter).

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  • "A lot of French construction companies got very rich out of building the Wall, " said Jerome Prieur, author of a 2010 book, Le Mur Atlantique.

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  • His writing is always clear, lively and personal, as it is in his latest book, "Surfaces and Essences, " written with a younger colleague, Emmanuel Sander, a French psychologist.

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