After the fall of France in 1940, Mrs Wake became a French Resistance courier and later a saboteur and spy - setting up escape routes and sabotaging German installations, saving hundreds of Allied lives.
Of course you can always fall for rural France in the traditional way - through the prism of hotels, restaurants and the windows of a car or TGV - but the options for visiting the countryside are so diverse it is a shame not to add a twist of authenticity to a trip.
The prospect of another heavy fall seems inconceivable for France and Germany.
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In order to stave off default by one or more large countries like Spain or Italy (and possibly even France if either of those do fall over) someone, somewhere, needs to purchase large amounts of the bonds of those two countries.
The narrator of "The Fall" makes backward glances in the direction of Paris, but Camus wrote nothing of substance about France.
This week it said operating profits for the first six months of the year would fall by 23%, mainly due to an abysmal performance in French hypermarkets (France accounts for 44% of the group's sales).
The process of rooting out imperial administrations in the political sphere has been under way for centuries, as far back as Magna Carta in England in 1215, the Revolution in France in 1789, and on to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
Their refusal to give Obama any credit for the fall of Gadhafi (some gave more credit to Great Britain and France) and harsh criticisms of his Iraqi timetable (the final pullout from Iraq was set by George W. Bush, not Obama) plays well with the Republican base, but looks small to other voters.
There is also a risk of deflation in France, where core inflation is expected to fall near to zero next year.
Meanwhile Pernod Ricard said that sales in Asia and the Americas helped to offset a fall in its home market, France - its best results since 2007-08 at the height of the global economic downturn.
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