And Lionel Jospin, France's prime minister, now says that non-French languages in France, such as Breton, should be given greater due.
But Lehagre told French news agency Agence France-Presse on Sunday that his company had been "fooled" by a French supplier.
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Valence, France (CNN) -- French gastronomy is a male-dominated world, and its centuries-old traditions are fiercely protected.
PARIS, France (Reuters) -- French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin said Libya's decision to abandon its weapons of mass destruction programs was an important move.
Many in France - including on the right - think that combination is sustainable, thanks to French companies' world-beating manufacturers.
In the wake of Mr Hollande's speech on Friday, France advised all "non-essential" French citizens to leave the West African country.
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Do you believe we could defend our social model or our cultural exception as strongly if France is weakened, if the French-German tandem is weakened?
But Fifa president-elect Sepp Blatter's statements reinforcing this led to two days of tough justice and a rash of red cards - including one to French playmaker Zinedine Zidane, whose two-game ban after France's match against Saudi Arabia, put his World Cup future in doubt.
As Zidane struggles for fitness, France team-mate David Trezeguet claims the inspirational French midfielder had injury worries before the friendly with South Korea.
For France, another chunk of la Francophonie - of French influence in the world - was disappearing beneath the unstoppable advance of the Anglo-Saxons.
Britain is considered more refugee-friendly than France (by both the French and the refugees), so there are pressures on British politicians to tighten up.
"Computer translation is getting better all the time but it is still hit and miss, " said Rory Mulholland, a Paris correspondent for Agence France-Presse and translator of several novels from French into English.
Pierre Lescure, a former head of Canal Plus, the television channel, was commissioned by Mr Hollande to make recommendations on how France should adapt its commitment to preserving French-language culture in the fast-changing digital era.
The French government was angered by Italy's decision to grant the migrants - many of them French speakers - temporary residence permits, which enabled them to enter France legally.
The three-day summit hosted by France provided the first opportunity for some of the leaders - notably the US and French presidents - to meet since sharp differences developed over military action in Iraq.
France - and reportedly Germany - have raised doubts over the identities of two suspects who used a French and a German passport.
After working with French financial regulators, Bitcoin-Central has hammered out a deal with French payment processor Acoba and France's Credit Mutuel bank to become a payment service provider, which allows it to function much like a bank.
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Bernard Squarcini, head of French intelligence, says France is al-Qaeda's second biggest target after America.
In arranging a marriage between Gaz de France and Suez, the French government has pre-empted a bid from Enel.
Still majority-owned by the French government, France Telecom has been struggling to reduce a seventy billion euro debt mountain.
Some people may just want to know what it takes to ski in France, others may want to know French end-to-end, others may need a refresher on French for business.
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Lord Guthrie also hailed the recent Anglo-French defence agreement the UK and France as "sensible" but warned the savings that would be made would not be "anything like as much as people think they will be".
Those who remember the backstage help that France gave Britain in trying to counter the French-made Exocet missiles used by Argentina during the Falklands war in 1982 may wonder how effective the Mistrals would be in any war that France disapproved of.
Another reason why French companies in aggregate have not done so well in China, says Wang Jiann-Yuh, director-general of the France-China Committee, part of MEDEF, the French employer's union, is that French businesspeople can be impatient, sometimes arrogant, and overly focused on short-term results.
Henson has signed a five-month deal as medical cover for the three-times French champions after being released from his Saracens contract - but admits he could stay in France after the Rugby World Cup.
Nicolas Sarkozy , one of the two leading candidates to be the next president of France, prefers American-style economic reforms more than most French politicos.
On Thursday, France sells the two- and five-year OATs (French bonds), while Spain will auction three-, five- and 10-year bonds, in a week of very negative net issuance.
The 26 year-old Kanoute was born in France and is a former French youth international.
The French state's stake in the Air France-KLM merger is set to be 44 percent.
Caviar produced in the Sologne, a rural, pollution-free region of central France, has found fans among French chefs.
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