But Parra's penalty extended the French advantage to 8-3 after 27 minutes when Scotland prop Moray Low was pinged again at the scrum.

BBC: Scotland 9-18 France

Here we have, side by side, a French silent film about Hollywood and a Hollywood movie set in nineteen-thirties Paris, with extended flashbacks to the beginnings of French silent film.

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Radwanska extended her winning career record against French seventh seed Bartoli to seven matches with a 6-4 6-2 win in a clash interrupted several times by the lights going out.

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"Elevated borrowing costs persisting for an extended period would amplify the fiscal challenges the French government faces amid a deteriorating growth outlook, with negative credit implications, " the agency said.

BBC: Global markets down on debt fears in US and eurozone

In the late 19th Century, Russians fought the British, French and the Ottoman Turks from these Crimean shores, as a part of an extended conflict over the spoils of the Ottoman Empire.

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Put all that together and it is not surprising that, according to one recent opinion poll, 77% of French adults believe that public-sector working lives, and therefore pension contributions, should be extended to match those of the private sector.

ECONOMIST: French pensions reform